Hello Maurice,

On 01 Mar 16 21:37, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK> I am not sure about 'easily' but most of the hard work is done.  It is
 MK> just a matter of getting it to work with whatever format you are
 MK> dealing with so that when nano returns control back it looks like it
 MK> needs to look for the BBS's fornat etc.  That is what will need to be
 MK> worked out at the moment but the last time I did something like this I
 MK> just used 'hpt post' to handle the dirty work. It worked fine and
 MK> didn't corrupt any utf8 characters like most (all?) FTN editors do.

Ah, good point. Then it's probably as good a time as any to mention Synchronet
has it's own message base format (SMB - Synchronet Message Base). So obviously
I would have to be able to read the headers of that format to get the initials
of the FROM field in order to quote any text that hasn't already been quoted,
and just as well, add a ">" to any previously quoted text, etc..

 NB>> I wouldn't mind testing a bash script before nano loads to do
 NB>> just that.

 MK> Same here.  I'll have to modify the current WeBeBashing to work with
 MK> squish bases, msged and nano and we can take it from there.  At the
 MK> moment WeBeBashing is an entire offline-type thingy that only cares
 MK> about handling things for vim. No squish or jam or whatever.

May I ask why you're choosing Squish? As far as I remember Squish has some
severe limitations which is why many people switched to JAM back in their
heyday. Either way, since I'm using a whole other format, whatever you would do
in this regard would have to be modified anyways.

 MK> I'll let you know once I have a so-called BBS setup here that more or
 MK> less mimicks a standard BBS for testing purposes.  Offhand I think
 MK> using the husky stuff will get this idea off the ground.

For some reason, I'm doubting you ever having any kind of "so-called" BBS setup
anymore these days. :)

Also, unfortunately I don't have the option of using the husky stuff with this
message base format, as it's not supported. This is why I was hoping there was
an easy way to do it with bash given a text file Synchronet creates when a
message is replied to.. but now that I say that, it may not be all that easy to
pull anything out of the SMB headers using bash either.

I'll have to keep on digging. :)

Regards,
Nick

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