Hi Patrick,
On Thursday 10-Feb-00, Patrick Ford wrote:
> On 09-Feb-00, Mike Leavitt wrote:
>>> messages' from the menu does the same. The only way I can get them
>>> out is to select Message/Edit and click on the `Send' bar in the
>>> edit window.
>>
>> If you are hitting store inatead of queue or send, this would be the
>> expected result.
> How does one hit `Queue'? Mine has no `Queue' button in the message
> editor window. It has Send, Store and Cancel.
[...]
> So far he nearest I have got to making it work in a sensible fashion
> is to use Send while not on line. There is a delay until it finds
> there's no TCP/IP stack and the message gets queued. It more or less
> works, but is far from satisfactory.
Go to Settings => General settings... => Network, and then check the
"Automatically check status of TCP/IP stack?" box. The "send" will then
change to a "queue" while you are offline.
> Another thing that seems to be broken is the way the text editor
> trashes quoted text. If lines exceed the preset 70 columns by the
> prefixing of `greater than' sign, it doesn't reflow them properly, and
> every (short) second line has the `greater that' sign missing.
Is "wordwrap by default" switched on in MuiPrefs => TextInput => Options?
Try increasing the width in the same area to something more like 79, that
way you are more likely to only follow-up messages with shorter character
widths, and the problem will not occur.
> The only way I have found to fix that is to edit in GoldEd and use a
> script to strip the `greater than' signs, reflow and format to 65
> columns and then replace the `greater than' signs. It takes only a
> moment, but it's still annoying having to do it.
One for Jules to MD2-Arexxify :-)
> I'm trying hard to convince myself that the problems I have with MD2
> are simply that I am not used to the way it works, but it's becoming
> harder to believe that all the time.
It does have a few bugs. It seems that Olli spends less time on MD-2, then
on any of his other projects. Now that V� Final has been released, I would
have thought some develpment would have gone into MD-2. There's an entry
almost every month in Olli's plan file saying "I will release an update to
MD-2 soon", or "I know MD-2 needs work; I haven't forgotten". We rarely
see updates, and the ones which do appear only seem to be minor bug-fix
updates. There are some important things still missing, unimplemented or
downright weird in MD-2 and the TextInput class. #Coloured# text appears
while editing, but does not show up in MD-2 while reading (likewise, but
opposite, for /italics/), the Message Filters don't work under certain (ie.
most) circumstances, editing messages does not keep the "References:"
header, resulting in broken threads. All these things should be fairly
simple to add/fix, but have been known about for months and nothing has
been done yet.
Chris
