[MlMt] Outlook style reply styling

[Allan Reiffman]

Selecting the qutoted text and using "command-option-apostrophe" works
great, THANK YOU!   Can't believe I never knew about this before.

Now if I could just figure out a way to automate this...  :)

-Allan


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Verdon Vaillancourt <verdonv at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So sorry, I meant command-option-apostrophe
>
> That has worked for me on pretty much every mail client I’ve used in years.
>
> v
>
>
>
> On 26 Apr 2018, at 2:40, Allan Reiffman wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but if I am understanding correctly, that does
>> not seem to work for me. After selecting the reply text (in the editing
>> pane), using "command-option-hyphen" just makes the text in that pane
>> smaller. Did I misundersand?
>>
>> Does anyone else have suggestions on how to customtize the reply styling
>> (globally, or per account, or per signature) such that the vertical line
>> indicating the quoted text is removed, and also adding a faint horizontal
>> line under my reply text?
>>
>> Having this ability would allow me to actually use Mailmate to reply to
>> messages.  Currently I use Mailmate just for reading and processing
>> incoming mail, and also for its great search functionality, but end up
>> using Outlook for replying so as to maintain a consistent format in the
>> reply conversation.  :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Allan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Verdon Vaillancourt <verdonv at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Ultimately, the problem is the non-standard behaviour of Outlook. I hate
>>> getting mail from something like that, finding it nearly impossible to
>>> read
>>> and track long conversations.
>>>
>>> …anyways… I don’t know about a global solution, but you could select the
>>> indented reply text and use the key-command “cmd-opt-‘“
>>> (command-option-hyphen) to remove the quoting.
>>>
>>> v
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:48, Allan Reiffman wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> How can I have the vertical "reply" line be removed from the reply to a
>>>> message?
>>>>
>>>> How can I add a horizontal line to the bottom of my reply?
>>>>
>>>> For better or worse the company where I work uses Outlook, and in a
>>>> given
>>>> email conversation thread the replies are simply stacked one on top of
>>>> the
>>>> other with no reply indicator or indentation, with each message being
>>>> separated by a faint horizontal line.  I would like my replies from
>>>> Mailmate to be consistent with this format.
>>>>
>>>> I assume that to do this I would need to customize the reply styling -
>>>> is
>>>> there a guideline or any documentation on how to do this (in general),
>>>> and
>>>> / or specifically what I would need to modify to achieve the above?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Allan
>>>>
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