Re: [Evolution] Word wrap in Compose Window?

[Greg Macek <it-guy mrichi com>]

Dan, thanks for your tip. It works great. I'll use it until Evo 1.2 is
ready for the public. I'd try out 1.1 if I wasn't using this everyday
for work and could afford any possible time to spend on devel issues.
:-) Larry, thanks for the update. 

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 23:09, Larry Ewing wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 23:10, Dan Hensley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 21:55, Greg Macek wrote:
> > > Is there any possibility of implementing a "Word Wrap" feature in the
> > > compose window? When I receive messages from particular people (mainly
> > > hotmail and AOL accounts), almost every time I go to reply, the original
> > > message runs off the screen, making it difficult to read. Viewing the
> > > original is fine, word wrapped for easy reading. If the email is
> > > HTML-formatted, same thing occurs (at least with Hotmail). Is this an
> > > issue with the way these programs format the text, or something in
> > > Evolution? 
> > 
> > I suspect the Ximian guys will say that the mail clients sending those
> > mails are broken.  At any rate, what I do in these cases is simply
> > select the offending text and change the format to Normal (it's probably
> > set to Preformat).  Then I'll indent the text to make it more clear that
> > it's quoted, since you'll only get one >.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> In 1.1 you will get >s for every line when you change the mode.  I
> suppose to make the development branch event easier we could probably
> change the default mode for long lines to "normal", since broken mailers
> seem more common than people that format long lines themselves...
> 
> oh well...
> 
> --Larry
>