Dammit I answered this and somehow lost it without saving.
On 12-Feb-00, Chris Young wrote:
> 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.
I did--it don't
> 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.
Yes, I should have already thought of that. I had it set to 70.
Probably even 74 would fix it. I'll find out in a minute.
>
>> 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 might even try porting my GEd script to MD2.
>> 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.
>
> There are some important things still missing, unimplemented or
> downright weird in MD-2 and the TextInput class. #Coloured# text
> appears while editing,
I have not seen that one. but I do get phantom text that has been
deleted reappearing over he top of new text. I have to CR it down to
force a redraw.
> 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.
i don't even use it's threading--I read in chronological order. From
years of Fidonet it seems normal to me.
> All these
> things should be fairly simple to add/fix, but have been known about
> for months and nothing has been done yet.
Well I have just tried V3 demo and I think I can forgive him for
neglecting MD.
Regards
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