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Why does some word-wrapped quoted text appear in the wrong color?

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Why does some word-wrapped quoted text appear in the wrong color?

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When you’re viewing a message that contains quoted text, you may sometimes notice that the text is word-wrapped and that the wrapped lines appear in black instead of blue (or whatever color you’ve chosen for quoted text). This is actually a problem with the message itself, not with Agent. This happens when the newsreader that created the message decides to word-wrap the quoted text and does not put a “>” at the beginning of the wrapped lines. Because they don’t start with the quote character, Agent has no way of knowing that they were originally part of the quote, and so it displays them in black. (To prevent you from perpetrating erroneous quotations like this, Agent doesn’t wrap quoted text. See the section on word-wrapping in the editor for more information about that.) If Agent wraps part of a quoted line, it does not provide a “>” character but still displays it in blue. It can do this because it knows that the new line is really part of the quoted line above it. See the section o

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