In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
 Christopher Jahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> And it came to pass that Parish wrote:
> 
> > Bill Lee wrote:
> >> Can anyone tell me what this kind of wrapping is about?  It
> >> makes following threads nearly impossible:
> >> [message pic]
-snip-
> > The sender has his mailer set to wrap at xx characters (when
> > the message is sent) but because the lines are quoted twice
> > they are now 4 characters longer and therefore are now the
> > lines are longer than xx so they get wrapped when sent.
> > 
> > I don't know if the message was sent from Mozilla, but Moz
> > doesn't reformat them (and neither do most mailers) to take
> > into account that the lines were quoted.

I haven't seen the pic -- it didn't make it to this server, but at
least on the Mac most mailers *do* allow one to reformat quoted lines.

I thought Mozilla did too.

> > This is one reason why I would like to see support for an
> > external message editor, so that I can use emacs which has
> > some nifty macros for reformatting quoted messages.
> > 
> 
> Xnews has this feature built in to its editor.  It is very 
> handy!

On the Mac it's a fairly common, almost standard, feature of
newsreaders.

-- 
J.B Moreno

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