Re: Mail mode

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Günter Milde <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Reformatting for comments would be nice. However comments and mail quotes
>> are two different things, because mail can  be quoted multiple levels
>> whereas in comments only the first "%" character is significant.
>
>However, it should work, as long as the levels are separated by space (i.e.
>"> >" != ">>")

Also there is no one style for mail quotes.  For example, I have seen
"#", " : ", ">", "Bill>", "|", .... used for quoting email.
Nevertheless, some functions could be shared.

>Furthermore, I thought about making comments a bit more relaxed about the
>space, i.e.
>   %variable c =3;

I believe there are some languages where the space is necessary.  For
example, m4 uses "dnl " to denote a comment.

Thanks,
--John

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