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Message: <blockquote data-quote="index" data-source="post: 1649304" data-attributes="member: 21195">I like the archivesStaffan wrote:....I know.  I just like the bare look over at the archives ( http://www.enworld.org/forums/archive/index.php/f-45 for example), but the forum block quoting doesn't show up over there.  Also, I can't see the block quoting if I use a text mode browser such as elinks instead of a GUI browser such as Opera even if I'm not looking at the archives.Ironically, 'primitive' text mode browsers such as lynx always word wrap automagically, but 'advanced' text mode browsers such as elinks try to preserve the existing formatting, so that I end up having to scroll horizontally, which is a PITA with a text mode browser.If the enworld forums had an email gateway, I'd be there yesterday.  (Of course, I'm always complaining about how I have email saved as far back as 1991 and can quickly stuff based on keywords, while most web forums regularly discard old stuff, but enworld seems to avoid the discarding old stuff problem.  Still, email is the easier interface for text discussions.)> Does this style of quoting> actually bother people?  If> so, I'll quit.As long as I have to copy-and-paste for spell-checking anyway, I've been using vim to edit my postings.  There, it's actually easier to use angle bracket quoting instead of forum-code quoting.  It seems that every different web forum has a slightly different way of encoding quoting and such.  (Speaking of vim, since I'm using the text box on the web page to edit this instead of vim, I have to keep going back to delete vim control codes that I reflexively type.)--index, who really should go to bed</blockquote>

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