thunderbird - reply window

[Norman Silverstone]

On 07/05/13 21:13, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 05/07/2013 01:14 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>> I have Thunderbird on 2 machines. On one of them the message reply
>> window has the text in blue and the lines of that message are marked
>> with a > or >> and so on. On the other machine the text is black and
>> lines of the message being replied to are marked by a coloured vertical
>> line. The first machine mentioned used to be like the second one until
>> something happened to change it.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to recover the reply window message marker to
>> the vertical line and the text in black, please?
>>
>> Norman
>>
>
> Not trying to be sarcastic, but are you sure you are looking at the
> reply window on both machines?
>
> If I look at my reply window I see exactly what you describe for the
> first machine, but if I am simply viewing a message that has multiple
> replies I see what you are describing for your second machine.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
A good question, Jim, so I had another look at messages with multiple 
replies and on both machines the text is marked by vertical lines, as 
expected.

Norman