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TL;DR Use HTML features (and dates). Yes, it's 2019 and I'm still in favour of plaintext emails. Sorry.
by cs02rm0 7y ago
TL;DR Use HTML features (and dates).
Yes, it's 2019 and I'm still in favour of plaintext emails. Sorry.
- vbsteven 7y agoAdding links and plaintext emails are not mutually exclusive. Hackernews comments are a great example where commenters often embed a [1] tag in their comment and at the end of the comment have a section like [1] https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com
- cs02rm0 7y agoNone of the HTML features the author uses lack a plaintext equivalent.
- vbsteven 7y agoI disagree. We've been doing this for decades on mailinglists # example heading You can add emphasis with asterisk or _underscores_. Links can be done with [1] tags And as an alternative, nothing stops you from using Markdown syntax in plaintext emails for adding structure like (nested) bullet lists. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com
- 0xffff2 7y agoI think you misread the comment you're responding to, and are therefore agreeing.
- petepete 7y agoMe too. This is exactly the area where something like Markdown should have flourished. At worst it looks like plain text with a few _ and * characters sprinkled around, it has beautiful clean HTML output and some terminals support italic and bold fonts; win/win/win. Pity that boat has long since sailed.
- arendtio 7y agoActually, I wonder why the author decided to use a monospace font for his examples. I mean, isn't it one of the less disputable facts, that monospace fonts are harder to read?