Re: [Evolution] Line wrap for replies

[Lloyd D Budd <lloyd foolswisdom com>]

As always Guenther, fantastic reply!

I do believe that there is a subtle logic bug here -- it has lead to me
sending at least of few long lines ;-)  

Format appears to be defined on a line by line basis.  The most
desirable behavior is for when a line has been deleted (backspace) of
all characters, that the format automatically become "Normal".

Wat do u think evo-devel?  Guenther (I appreciate your opinion)?

Cheers,
Lloyd


On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 21:01, guenther wrote:
> > When I compose a new e-mail, the lines wrap at 72 characters, but, when
> > I compose a reply, line wrapping appears to be off:  I have to insert
> > new lines manually.
> >
> > How can I force automatic line wrapping for replies?  How can I change
> > the automatic line width?
>
> In the Composer, there is a dropdown menu right above the text pane for
> the paragraph style -- likely showing 'Normal' or 'Preformat'.
>
> 'Normal' breaks at 72 chars, whereas 'Preformat' wont break your lines
> unless you manually insert a linebreak.
>
>
> Composing new mails defaults to 'Normal' to ensure your text will be
> readable in 80 chars even when being quoted (multiple times). Replying
> defaults to 'Preformat' for the quoted text (to prevent ugly
> "Kammquoting" [1]) and 'Normal' for your text. Just hit enter and you
> magically get a new paragraph with 'Normal' style.
>
> You can change this own your own decision, mainly to insert long lines
> without wrapping.

> AFAIK there is no way to change the line width for being quoting save as
> mentioned above -- this is common practice.
>
> ...guenther
>
>
> [1]  Sorry, dunno the English phrase for this, but this German phrase
> means "comb quoting", which describes it pretty good: Quoted blocks,
> where long lines are wrapped and therefore breaking the cascaded quoting
> chars. You have a hard time to see, who actually wrote which