Re: [Evolution] Forced Line Wrap on Received Messages

[Dave Finnegan <dave synchronicity com>]

Yes, I am talking about viewing messages with long lines.

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 16:48, Eric Lambart wrote:
> Ah yes, but that's different.  I was under the impression that the
> original poster was referring to problems /viewing/ the message.  Just a
> little while ago, I myself replied to a message (mis?)formatted as you
> describe.  It looked fine in the preview pane and separate message
> window, but upon reply each paragraph became a single loooong line.
>
> I also wish this was handled automatically by Evolution, but there is a
> very simple (thanks to Evolution) solution to this problem, that works
> extremely well:
>
> First, open a reply window to the message.
>
> Then, if you are one of those people who actually likes the
> inconvenience of using a mouse (wink), move the cursor to each offending
> line/paragraph in turn, and click the message formatting toolbar where
> it says "Preformat".  Change that setting to "Normal" and voila!
> Evolution not only wraps the whole paragraph properly, but also inserts
> the ">" quoting character before each line.  Lovely.
>
> If you prefer to do things more quickly, just cursor down to each
> paragraph and press Ctrl-0 (ZERO on the top of the keyboard).  Same
> effect.
>
> You could also probably select the whole message (Ctrl-A or Edit->Select
> All), and then change the style in one fell swoop, but that may change
> something you'd rather leave as-is.
>
> HTH
> Eric
>
> P.S.  By the way, all of the keyboard shortcuts for paragraph style are
> (rather mysteriously, since they include things that can't rightly be
> called headings) listed in the message compose window, under
> Format->Heading.
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:51, Jason Temple wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >     
> >     I am running evo 1.2.1 and am seeing the same behavior with incoming
> > message that I reply to...the preview pane wraps it correctly, but when
> > I `reply' it scrolls off until it hits a hard carriage return in the
> > message itself.  For 95% of my email this does not happen, but some
> > email coming from an external exchange server exhibits this behavior.
> >
> > jas
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