greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >The only one affecting gMail is "fixed width" but i think that only > affects the font, and the other behaviour is, as i remember, the same > before and after adding it.
I love fixed width. I wish GMail would be consistent about supporting it (natively). >The advantage in long lines, and the benefit that it gives me, is that it > prevents wrapping through to the next cycle. This is an inductive cycle. I didn't know what you meant at all, until you mentioned "a vertical line(s) enclosing all of the quoted material" below. Click! All became clear. You're NOT using the plaintext interface; you're using rich text. When you move into your editor, you're losing crucial detail. Once I figured that out, the entire problem made more sense -- that's the kind of thing I have to fight in (my older) Outlook and some forums. If you switch to plaintext in GMail your problem will go away -- and in fact you probably were in plaintext, then someone somehow switched you to richtext and you didn't notice because you're using another editor. > Before i had to laboriously reform every note, in every post, each time. > Now i just do it once. It remains unbroken. It saves me a good hour every > day:) Yes, that makes sense -- but try switching to true plaintext, and don't bother reforming paragraphs. That's what the ">" behavior is meant for -- it allows the editor and/or MUA to perform rewraps that won't scramble quotations. > But then i am fastidious about keeping a history of my email > correspondence: one which stretches back to 1970, the first email group i > was a member of was a Sociologist group exploring the (then) new medium of > email at Project MAC. I have to admit I respect that. Pretty cool. > greg > ~krsnadas.org -Wm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
