[Pmwiki-users] OFF TOPIC question about Eudora

[Neil Herber]

I think I must conclude ... none of the below!

At 2005-01-24  01:15 AM +0100, Sven Opitz is rumored to have said:
>Hi,
>
>>Question 2: Does anybody have any idea what this "Emacs!" means?? I have 
>>searched the Eudora knowledge base to no avail.
>
>That depends.
>1. It could mean the Emacs editor 
>http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html . Anyone in the Linux/Unix 
>World knows this great tool (although I prefer vim, but that is another 
>story and shall be told another time)

Why would a Eudora email client put the text "Emacs!" in the location where 
I pasted an inline graphic.

>2. If you write HTML-Email (AHHHHH!) it could be the title or the alt tag 
>of the picture.

I have HTML email turned off, but Eudora seems to do "half-HTML" anyway. 
Why would they insert that as an alt tag? I certainly did not.

>3. Could it be the picture was called emacs!.jpg?

No. This occurs for jpegs and gifs that have quite different names.

>4. I don't know, how Eudora handles this, but maybe you said create an 
>ascii email, and the word emacs was taken from your clipboard (where you 
>stored it before), while the picture was simply ignored.

I would never put that word on my clipboard. And I am certain that someone 
hasn't been sneaking in and putting on my clipboard before I send an email 
with an image. Every time????

>5. PM is correct and it was stored in the comment field of the jpg.

But that doesn't explain it on gifs ....


>Bye
>Sven

Thanks for the thought, Sven, but it is still a mystery. Googling for 
answers is impossible because you get swamped by responses about the eMacs 
editor and Google seems to ignore the trailing exclamation mark.


Neil

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