In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Lairo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(any particular reason this message was in HTML instead of f=f or
normal plaintext?)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Peter Lairo wrote:
> >
> > > ISSUE A)
> > > When receiving plain text mail, or when copy/pasting text from
> > > one place to another, shouldn't soft returns be pasted as soft
> > > returns (thus adjusting the linewraps to the new window width)
> > > and hard returns be pasted as hard returns? This would be the
> > > desired solution.
Sounds like you want format=flowed, aka RFC 2646, which allows just
this.
(Although I'd like to say that unquoted text should /normally/ by
/default/ be softwrapped to a fixed number of characters in the window.
BTW -- in most decent mail/newsreader this isn't really that big of a
deal even without f=f (which isn't to say that f=f is useless, dealing
with quoted text automatically isn't really possible without it), as
they have an "unwrap" command which removes
> > > ISSUE B)
> > > I've also noticed that when pasting into a message, the text
> > > is pasted as "preformatted" text and not as "body" text, as
> > > one would expect.
> > >
> > > Paste should simply paste as plain text (body) unless the
> > > message one is pasting into AND the copied text are BOTH
> > > formatted.
> >
> > Did you try a very recent nightly?
>
> yes, the most recent one that will run: 20010205 (the more recent ones
> all crash)
What do you mean by "preformatted" -- do you mean paragraph structure
(i.e. line endings) or do font/style information?
If it's the former then that is what it should do, if the later, then
I'd agree that was a bug.
> > > QUESTION 1)
> > > Would it be possible to put soft returns into plain text?
This is already done with messages that are f=f, for non-f=f messages,
it'd be possible to add an "unwrap" command, but you'd have to get
someone to do the work and get the UI approved.
File a RFE bug on it.
> > > QUESTION 2)
> > > Is mozilla or netscape capable of suggesting / implementing
> > > such a standard? (if not, who?)
Already done -- format=flowed, RFC 2646, most messages from the current
version of Eudora should be f=f.
> > > If either answer is yes, it should definetely be pursued as
> > > top priority and i will post a bug for it. This is still
> > > THE *major* drawback of all e-mail formatting issues.
> > >
> > BTW: What Daniel talks about is not "normal plaintext", which I
> > referred to in the bug.
>
> what is "normal plaintext" then?
"Normal plaintext" is just that -- what people think of normally when
they say/hear "plaintext", Daniel was talking about format=flowed text
which /appears/ to be normal plaintext in programs that don't
understand f=f.
--
J.B. Moreno
