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
