Re: Icon list replaced by treeview and message/rfc822 attachments

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels cistron nl>]

On 2003.06.03 16:28, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 06/03/2003, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> [ useful suggestion snipped ]
> > On a related note, I can ofcourse use message -> view source, but 
> > that brings up a window with a proportional font (not very nice for 
> > "view source")
> 
> Perhaps balsa_app.message_font would be better?  Of course, that might 
> be proportional too...

But in that case it is at least configurable. Anyways, I have my
message_font fixed, as $DEITY intended it to be ;)

> > and with tabs replaced with "\t". Perhaps that can be fixed as well ?
> 
> In "view source", it might be important to distinguish a tab from a 
> string of spaces.  As you note, it's supposed to be informative, not 
> pretty!

Sure but it makes cut&paste pretty useless.

I have no idea what kind of dialog is used to show the source of the
message, perhaps there could be a View -> [v] Escape control characters
tick in the menu bar. My personal preference would to not escape
anything at all.

Mike.
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