Garth Wallace wrote:
>>2. Loss of all ability to specify where you want your text
>>to wrap. Well, you can, and I always want it to wrap at 60
>>characters, but it only works when I'm typing in the message
>>window, but once I hit send, the message will look different
>>and not wrap at 60 characters, but will spread all the way
>>across the screen.
>>
>
> The wrapping pref is just a UI setting.
>
> That's called format=flowed, and it's generally
> considered a good thing
I consider it a terrible thing if I can't control how my
messages appear. And I find it extremely annoying, that
there is actually a setting, that allows you to set your
characters for plain text to 60 characters (or whatever you
choose) just like there was in versions 4.7x, but that it
only applies to your composition window, and not your actual
post.
It's ridiculous.
> (it allows long lines
> without breaking older mailreaders,
older like 4.7x?
That wasn't broken, 6.1 is with regard to being able to
format your messages.
> and without
> suffering quotedamage in broken mailers). There
> is a hidden pref in prefs.js to turn off
> format=flowed and just use old-school
> format=fixed. Not sure what it is though.
Neither am I, and either way, it shouldn't be something I
have to dig into a prefs.js file to change.
>>3.In v 4.7x, you would have a caret at the top of your
>>message pane, which would indicate to you where your text
>>was going to wrap. That is also gonzo like alonzo mourning
>>
>
> Alonzo who? Anyway, you should file a bug on
> that. That's a small UI polish thing that may
> have just been overlooked.
I doubt it was overlooked. They took away the feature which
the caret applied to, so they obviously would take away the
caret as well, unless they wanted to annoy people to even
greater extremes.
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