Re: [Evolution] automatic line breaks in Composer

[Bill Barnard <bill barnard-engineering com>]

In the Normal mode the lines appear to wrap as I type them, but there
really aren't any line breaks yet, as I can see by pasting them over to
emacs. However the messages stored in my Sent box do contain the line
breaks, although they appear identical to what I saw before sending the
message.

I conclude that the lines wrap in the composer without inserting the
line breaks in order to facilitate moving text around in the email
without worrying about where line breaks are. Once I send the mail, I'm
obviously satisfied with the format, so probably this is when Evo
inserts the line breaks (more accurately, the newlines.)

bb

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:44, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:27, Bill Barnard wrote:
> > Thanks. I guess if I'd looked more closely at my Sent messages I'd have
> > seen the line breaks in there. I allowed myself to be fooled by the fact
> > that the line breaks aren't inserted until the message is sent.
>
> Are you saying that the lines don't wrap as you are typing?  If they
> don't wrap as you are typing, you must be in preformat mode, and line
> breaks WON'T be inserted before the message is sent.
>
> Occasionally when replying to messages, Evolution (actually gtkhtml)
> incorrectly leaves you in Preformat mode.  As it is I think the logic
> works very well and occasionally having to force it into "Normal" mode
> is acceptable to me...
>
> Eric