Forum posting question ... how post a thread question with color syntax highlighting ??

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 9/5/21 9:18 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 9/5/21 4:24 PM, someone wrote:
>  >
>  > For example; IIRC Ali's posts are always no-markdown.
>  >
> 
> That's because I've been using Thunderbird for mail and news for a long 
> time now and unfortunately it is impossible to convince Thunderbird to 
> add the necessary header field. (Vladimir has a recommendation where I 
> can run a simply local server that augments Thunderbird's headers but I 
> haven't tried it yet.)
> 
> I should go back to using Emacs for news. I am pretty sure it will be 
> configurable.
> 
> Ali
> 

This is *exactly* how I do it. Though I have started creating an 
iopipe-based clone cause I wanted to see if I could do it. Unfortunately 
std.io is not mature enough.

I plan to have a dub project so you can just `dub run 
thunderbirdmarkdown` and now you have a solution.

And to answer someone's question, I think everyone is fine with 
markdown, they just don't always have the capability.

I will note though, that some people use the mechanism for links that 
puts the link at the bottom of the post, and this can be annoying when 
you reply, if you don't include the link definition, it doesn't render 
correctly.

-Steve