On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:32:30 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Hendrik Boom posted on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:01:21 +0000 as excerpted: > >> I sometimes have occasion to cut text from a shell window and paste it >> into a message. It looks OK when i edit it, but after I post it and it >> gets back to me, the formatting is completely screwed up, with newlines >> appearing at random places, and the original newlines completely gone. >> Presumably someone thinks this is useful. >> >> Is there some way to prevent this? > > Jim already hinted at this, but here it is a bit more explicitly. If it > looks OK when you post it (using pan), that's how it's sent -- pan posts > as it displays. > > However, on the receiving side, pan has two wrap modes, and you're > probably in auto-wrap mode, which might be just fine for flowed text but > doesn't work with pre-formatted content such as tables, ascii-art, etc, > because it re-flows them, too. > > What you want is unwrapped (aka manually wrapped, as-is) mode. > > The function that toggles between these modes is view, body pane, wrap > article body. By default, the "w" hotkey is assigned to it, so as Jim > says, simply hitting "w" should toggle between the two wrap-modes when > viewing a message.
Thanks. 'w' worked; it's a lot better. There's still an issue with tab spacing, but I should know better than to post tabs anyway. Who knows what the recipient's newsreader will do with them! It there a way of seeing tabs in messages being posted so I can choose to do something about them? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
