[Tutor] avoiding top-posting in GMail (was: Changing the interpreter prompt symbol from ">>>" to ???)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 12Mar2016 00:19, wolfrage8765 at gmail.com <wolfrage8765 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Also before I get called out; sorry for the top post; I blame G-Mail's
>Interface.

I once worked in a place where GMail was pretty much the standard mail tool 
(guess where that might be:-) We took GMail's cursor-at-the-top style to be a 
cue that you should start trimming quoted junk there, and insert your remarks, 
blank line delimited, under each remaining relevant untrimmed quoted material 
snippet.

Which leads to exactly what we all want here: inline posted replies with 
irrelevant stuff cleaned up for maximum contextual relevance.

>And good luck finding a better option; perhaps detecting if Unicode is
>supported on the system then we could use something such as Right
>Facing Triangle.

  % locale
  LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="C"
  LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=

I think my terminal might be Unicode friendly...

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>