How to disable graphical quoting

    I would like to temporarily disable graphical quoting so that the >, >> type quoting is used. I have disabled the Quote Colors & Collapse plugin and restarted Thunderbird, but it is still showing the graphical quoting. I would have thought that disabling the plugin would have caused TB to go back to the default quoting.

    Is there a way to go back to the default quoting? Are there settings in Config Editor which need to be changed? Which ones?

    I am on TB 102.9.0 and Quote Colors & Collapse 4.1.0.

    Thanks,

    Bill

    Quote from BillH

    Is there a way to go back to the default quoting? Are there settings in Config Editor which need to be changed? Which ones?

    Hello,

    temporarily disable graphical quoting as an switch ON/OFF i don't know.

    Try the Add-on off and set in config editor entries as follow:

    mail.quoted_graphical -> false

    mail.quoteasblock -> false

    mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support -> true

    I am not tested, whether Quote Colors & Collapse works correct with settings above.

    If so, then easy Add-on switch ON/OFF to toggle enable/disable graphical quoting.

    Edited 2 times, last by Bastler: revision (March 18, 2023 at 11:55 AM).

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    Try the Add-on off and set in config editor entries as follow:

    mail.quoted_graphical -> false

    mail.quoteasblock -> false

    mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support -> true

    Thanks Bastler. I disabled the extension. I changed the first two options from "true" to "false". The last one was already set to "true". Doing this did cause TB to revert to the standard >, >> type quoting. I then enabled the extension and changed them back to "true" and the graphical quoting was back. Just what I needed.

    Not sure why there isn't an option to do that in the extension. It seems like if a person wanted to quit using graphical quoting that there should be an easy way to revert to the standard quoting. I only want to do it occasionally. I prefer the graphical quoting.

    Thanks!

    Bill

    Quote from BillH

    Not sure why there isn't an option to do that in the extension.

    The reason is, that pure WexExtension Code doesn't allow to change these settings. Due to that fact the option was removed out of the addon from up version 3 and up. I could try to reimplement the option using some legacy code, but this would only retard the fact, that it mus be removed in future again.

    Thanks, that explains why there is no option. Would it make sense to add some kind of explanation (in the settings or somewhere else) on how to revert to the >, >> form of quoting for those who wish to turn off graphical quoting or uninstall the extension?

    Just for clarification, is it just these settings that can't be changed or is it any Config Editor settings that can't be changed??

    Thanks,

    Bill

    Quote from BillH

    Just for clarification, is it just these settings that can't be changed or is it any Config Editor settings that can't be changed??

    The responsible MZLA developer wants us addon developers not to manipulate about:config prefs using legacy code. Addons that have done this before may continue to do so, at least temporarily. But this is an exception. They don't want us to (re-)introduce new about:config manipulations.

    This is also different from my other addon "Allow HTML Temp". About:config prefs are also changed there, but these can all be undone using Thunderbird's own user interface - without manual manipulation of about:config. This would not be possible for graphical quoting.