Re: [Evolution] Word wrap in Compose Window?

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley attbi com>]

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 22:09, 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...

The first feature sounds great.  I've been holding off on the 1.1
upgrade since I use Evo as my primary mailer, but it sounds like it's
got all kinds of great new features that I'm going to enjoy.

As far as making the default mode "normal" for long lines, I think that
would be a pretty nice feature as well.  It's certainly easier than
fixing all those broken mailers ;).

Dan

> oh well...
>
> --Larry
>
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