Re: Re: Odd PyAIMt problem

The more I think about it, the more I actually do like the * and _  
stuff.  However, I know there are folk out there who are adamantly  
against and formatting in their messages.  So.. I don't know.  =/  I  
was kicking around the idea of making dehtml take an optional  
argument to simple "kill the formatting" aspect of it (ie, kill the  
** and the __), and then from outside of oscar.py I could provide an  
option to turn off that behavior if you really want.  The only  
problem I would have with killing the "bold the entire message" stuff  
is... what if they legitimately wanted that?  Like <b>HOLY CRAP!!!!!</ 
b>.

Daniel

On Mar 16, 2006, at 12:10 AM, Robert B Quattlebaum, Jr. wrote:

> Being that I'm the guy who wrote that mechanism, here is my two cents:
>
> The original idea was for the dehtml function to salvage links (ie:  
> <A> tags) so that they wouldn't get lost. While I was at it, I  
> figured, "hey, why not also throw in some formatting? Kinda like a  
> reverse markdown thing...". I implemented it, Daniel liked it, the  
> rest is history.
>
> However, I totally understand your annoyance for your friends who  
> really like their bold text and bold the entire message. However, I  
> have good news---that is a very easy case to test for. I can simply  
> make it check to see if the whole message is bold, and if it is  
> then remove the stars (or underscores) from the start and end of  
> the message.
>
> How does that sound?
>
> On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Daniel Henninger wrote:
>
> > > Now that I know what it's doing and I'm not going crazy, I'm not  
> > > too sure if I like it either or not. It works great in theory if  
> > > you have AIM buddies that only highlight certain words, but I've  
> > > got a couple friends who have their AIM client setup to send  
> > > everything in italics or in bold so it gets annoying to look at  
> > > after a while (but I'm sure I'll get used to it). It'd be real  
> > > nice if it could  be turned on or off on a per contact level  
> > > (maybe a Ad-hoc command/option per contact?) but that'd probably  
> > > be a bit much. Overall though I say keep it, it's a nice feature.
> >
> > Wow, LOL, I don't even have user prefs worked out yet, and now  
> > you'd like user prefs per contact?  ;D  Maybe I should set up an  
> > autoresponse of "hey, stop bolding the entire thing".  ;D  Of  
> > course, then again, if you were seeing the actual real bold and  
> > underlines, wouldn't that be just as annoying?  Still, I'll have  
> > to think about this a tad . . .
>
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