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 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
