Re: misc/41498: mailing list archive shows SRM chevron `>>>' prompt as vertical line

[Ray Phillips <r.phillips%uq.edu.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/41498; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ray Phillips <r.phillips%uq.edu.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/41498: mailing list archive shows SRM chevron `>>>' 
 prompt as vertical line
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:47:52 +1000

 Thanks for your reply.
 
 >  > When output of an Alpha console session which contains SRM's 
 >chevron `>>>' prompt is included in an email to 
 >port-alpha%netbsd.org@localhost the prompt is shown as a vertical bar on the 
 >mail archive Web page, e.g.:
 >  >
 >  > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2009/05/28/msg000285.html
 >
 >  You guessed correctly that the software that converts the mail to html
 >  mistakes the '>>>' prompt with quote characters.
 >  Short of AI good enough to actually parse the semantics and infer that
 >  in this rare case it's a prompt and not a third-level quote, I see no fix
 >  that can be done in the converter (and not be quite fragile).
 
 OK.
 
 >
 >  Please note that this error does not happen as soon as there's some
 >  whitespace in front of the prompt. If you indent your machine output,
 >  the mis-conversion will no longer happen.
 
 OK, I'll try that.  Thanks.
 
 
 Ray