11 Mar
2017
11 Mar
'17
7:13 p.m.
Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
|> Wouldn't [> in quoted mail] have happened first in email, like Mail \
|> or mailx?
|
|Mailx doesn't do it now, so it probably didn't do it then.
It seems to have entered Mail not before 1988, when Edward Wang
replaced the fixed "\t" prefix with a "tabstr" variable (he
credits Tom Newcomb, newcomb at arpa, for this). In 1989 he
changed "tabstr" to "indentprefix" and quotes "to be Sun
compatible".
--steffen