[Python-ideas] Transportable indent level markers. >>>===<<<

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Dec 15 07:51:01 CET 2011


MRAB wrote:
> On 15/12/2011 00:18, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> On 15/12/11 12:53, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>>>  Funny. I choose them for the same reason.>>>  is also bad because 
>>> some mail
>>>  agents, like Thunderbird not only interpret initial runs of>  as 
>>> message
>>>  quotes but replace them with various colored bars.
>>
>> Does anyone know a way of turning that off, by the way?
>> It drives me batty when I'm looking at Python interactive
>> session transcripts.
>>
> It annoys me too, so I went looking:
> 
> Quote bars
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Quote_bars
> 
> On my PC the prefs.js file was in a subfolder of:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application 
> Data\Thunderbird\Profiles
> 
> and it now shows the ">" as ">".

I went the other way and changed my python prompt to '-->'.

~Ethan~



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