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Improve displaying of 'quoted' messages.

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#376 opened on Jun 5, 2019

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Description

This PR focuses on tracking improvement to issue of displaying 'quoted text' in a better manner.

  • The first approach here was to indent quoted text based on the level of quoting. Multi line texts are padded with a padding character.
  • V2: Use LineBox approach to display the quoted messages; We could split up the html for different block-quotes and apply soup2mark on each of these.

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Research direction
Examine the existing quoting code and the proposed LineBox approach. Understand how to parse HTML block quotes and convert them to the terminal display format.
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python
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cli
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