Re: [Evolution] Word wrap in Compose Window?

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

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