Erik Meltzer wrote:
> But what's so hard about wanting to *read* mail the way it was
> sent, and *write* mail the way it will be sent? What's so strange
> about wanting to see every line break, every quote char precisely
> where it actually was typed, and wanting to be able to control
> them completely in a reply?
Nothing. Use pliantext composer, and you have it during composition.
Change the prefs I mentioned, and you have it for display.
> I don't want software that "does the right thing" for me, adds
> newlines, displays blue bars where ">"s are and whatnot. That can't
> be so hard can it?
You surely know the malformed nested quoting Outlook Express Windows
does, right? What can we do against it? format=flowed. format=flowed
requires <blockquote type=cite>.
So, we can do thing you can't do. I do think that this default is
rational, given that most users don't care about each space, but are
confused about OE's broken quoting stlye.
> Just a way of displaying, but some of us don't like it. Make it
> configurable.
Gee! It is! I just posted the prefs!
> Speaking of which, how about a way to turn off HTML messages displaying
> as such? I'd like to see the HTML source code instead.
There's a bug about converting them to plaintext.
You might be interested in <http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html> .
> Correct. But the way I'd like to have it display (namely, with all
> the chars and line breaks untouched, and in a proportional font)
> isn't currently possible with Mozilla.
Why not? Did you set the prefs?
