Every time I reply to an email in thunderbird I get this:

> Here is my message
> Here is my message
> Here is my message

I would like to get rid of the indentation characters (>) completely.
Any idea on how to do this? I cannot find any option however hard I
look.

Thanks!

Date: 9/14/2008 1:52 PM, Author: Alex Wrote:
> Every time I reply to an email in thunderbird I get this:
>
>> Here is my message
>> Here is my message
>> Here is my message
>
> I would like to get rid of the indentation characters (>) completely.
> Any idea on how to do this? I cannot find any option however hard I
> look.
>
> Thanks!


Completely removing the quote indicators in replies would make the message
nearly incomprehensible in all but the simplest of threads.

If you have the the pref "mail.quoted_graphical" set to true you can make the
indicator nearly invisible on your display.

You can add the these lines to "userContent.css" in the chrome directory of your
profile.

/*
* Remove redundant quote bars on right side and
* Apply colors to message quote bars and quoted text.
*/
blockquote[type=cite] {
color: blue !important;
padding: 3px !important;
border-right: none !important;
border-color: black !important;
}

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote {
border-color: blue !important;
}

(1 & 2) Makes quoted text blue. (recommended,
(3) Sets space between bars. (0px would make them touching each other)
(4) Prevents redundant bars from displaying on the right side.
(5) Sets color of the bar (silver would be light gray))

Additional block sets color of next and all further levels of quotes. You could
use white for this and the bars would be invisible (assuming you message
background color is white).

You can add additional blocks to create different colors for each level of
quotes. I have several levels alternating between blue and gray. Just add
another "blockquote" to each statement, the sixth level deep looks like this.

blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote {
border-color: grey !important;
}

The result of "color: blue", "padding: 0px" and "border-color: white" would be
blue quoted text with a tiny indent of each quote level.

You will still see the "> > " when composing a message to aid when interspersing
reply text into a quote.

The extension "Quotecolors" provides a user interface for this and other effects.


--
G. R. Woodring

Try QuoteandComposeManager

Alex scribbled the following,on 14-Sep-08 12:52:
> Every time I reply to an email in thunderbird I get this:
>
>> Here is my message
>> Here is my message
>> Here is my message
>
> I would like to get rid of the indentation characters (>) completely.
> Any idea on how to do this? I cannot find any option however hard I
> look.
>
> Thanks!


--
There are three kinds of people -- those that can count and those that
can't.

On 9/14/2008 10:52 AM, Alex wrote:
> Every time I reply to an email in thunderbird I get this:
>
>> Here is my message
>> Here is my message
>> Here is my message
>
> I would like to get rid of the indentation characters (>) completely.
> Any idea on how to do this? I cannot find any option however hard I
> look.
>
> Thanks!

This is a great idea. But it should actually remove the quote
indicators, not merely hide them from being displayed.

For E-mail, I'm still using a very old version of Eudora. It has a
plugin called RmvQuote. I've used it to remove quote indicators in
messages where I want to copy quoted text and paste it into a document.
I've also used it when I've received a message that has gone through
too many generations of forwarding -- each adding another level of quote
indicators -- and I merely want to quote only the original message.
It's because of this plugin (and a few others) that I still have not
updated to Thunderbird or any other more modern E-mail application.

--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

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