Re: [Evolution] [gtkhtml] tabs ....

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

Le 2001.04.26 08:20:20 +0200, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
> Le 2001.04.26 03:55:30 +0200, Duncan Mak a écrit :
> > hey gang. To get Evolution snapshots again, just go to the unsubscribed
> > channels on the left, and you'll see the good ol' Evolution Snapshots
> > channel again. Click on the link, click subscribe, wait a bit, and
> it'll
> > work just like it used to. (sorry, my local build is borked, i can't do
> > line-breaks at all ;( ) 
>
> speaking of line-breaks ...
>
> it's important to be able to send & receive text-only mails (good, Evo
> can
> do it), fully preserved (Evo can't do it).
> A good example: when sending patches to linux-kernel, they must be "in
> clear-text under your message", so lines must be left in one piece, and
> whitespaces must be preserved. Attachment is not an option, because the
> reply may include pieces of patches.
> OK, I just checked and it's possible to turn off word-wrapping when using
> "preformatted" instead of "normal" as the composing style. Good.
>
> Tabs should be left as-is, at least when copying/pasting in the composer.
> Currently they are pasted as a non-ascii character (showing as "NL" with
> the font I use, but I think it's an actual tab). But when sent they are
> correctly sent as tabs. So I suppose the "tab" char in just incorrectly
> displayed in the composer.
>
> What's worse is that when received, they are shown as 8 spaces ! So I
> can't
> copy/paste a received patch, it's just plain unusable - even in "view
> source" mode. It seems to be a gtkhtml problem.

Oh, I just forgot: a way to easily select whole lines (e.g. triple-click on
a line enters line-select mode) would greatly help too.

Cheers,

Xav