[pmmail-list] An old confusing bug

[Bushy]

Well I am buggered if it will wrap for me.  I have tried checking line wrapping, going for wysiswyg, flow and a line length of 72.

Nothing makes any difference.

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 06:16:50 -0500 (CDT), Maynard Riley wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:23:26 +0200 (CEST), mg wrote:
>
>>|Wrapping at a fixed length is not convenient: what is sent does not
>>|correspond to what you type. For instance,
>
>The wording here inspires me to double check the improbable. I use
>fixed length wrapping most of the time, and I do so without ever a CR
>('Enter' key) until I want to start a new paragraph, generally after a
>blank line, which I'll do just now.
>
>Never use 'Enter' within a paragraph. The line wrapping does that,
>whether fixed length or wysiwyg. I exchange lots of repeatedly quoted
>discussion mail, and this setting has been excellent. Fixed at 72
>characters.
>
>I do support a change in the program so that quoted lines are not
>wrapped. Pretty soon those can get pretty bad looking; though it could
>be an interesting matter to determine which lines are quoted, since you
>might not want to restrict yourself to '>' character.
>
>Regarding the orginal poster's concern about the experienced
>inconvenience of fixed width wrapping; I understand perhaps that the
>desire would be to have the real time text as typed wrap at the
>specified line length, while typing. That consideration is worthy of
>the next programmer's consideration, but it is very much a non-basic
>activity to constantly check and redraw the window I expect.
>
>Anyway,
>
>-- Maynard
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