Re: Chagning word-wrap margin for a single message?
Hallo Gavin, On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:06:06 +1100GMT (2-1-03, 14:06 +0100GMT, where I live), you wrote: GS The simplest way to prevent this is to wrap my stuff at about 50 GS characters also. Can I do this for a single message? Don't think so, unless you change your editor preferences before and after writing the message. It's not that difficult and seems to upset you quite bit, so you could consider it: Options-Editor Preferences-General-Wrap text at ... characters. GS If, as I suspect, the answer is no, then here's one more reason to GS allow editing in an external editor. Why? Somebody sends you crap, so you store it as crap. If it really, really bothers you, you could wrap everything at 50. -- Groetjes, Roelof Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Chagning word-wrap margin for a single message?
Hello Roelof, and Gavin, On Thursday, January 02, 2003, 12:23 PM, you wrote: GS The simplest way to prevent this is to wrap my stuff at about 50 GS characters also. Can I do this for a single message? Gavin, if I'm not misunderstanding you, it's the appearance of the message in your Reply text editor window that is bothering you. If that's not it, you should just ignore the rest of what I'm saying here. To straighten up the line appearance, you could (keeping your 70 or 72 line auto-wrap) click on Utilities on the Reply window toolbar. Choose Format Block. Position the cursor within the paragraph you want to fix (it only works with adjacent lines of text) and choose Align left. In other words, instead of conforming to the 50-wrap line, conform the quoted message to your line-length preference. I just learned about this a couple of days ago. Before that, I had been laboriously moving text which had come in from friends using Outlook Express, just in order not to send back such a long, ugly page. What you see in the Reply window, as you no doubt know, is what should arrive on the other end of cyberspace. :) People were complaining about the Format Block choice--they wanted to format the entire message with one click--but I am grateful for even this much, after having sat on Delete and Backspace and Enter for two months. Which was both time-consuming and annoying. A little over two months is the time I have had The Bat! and have been subscribed to this list. -- Best regards, Mary Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Chagning word-wrap margin for a single message?
Hello Melissa, On Thursday, January 02, 2003, 1:18 PM, you wrote: snip M ... alternative to using the mouse menus... Alt+L. snip M There actually is a way to re-format multiple paragraphs at once. M Yes...you guessed it...a regex macro in a Quick Template! :-) Allie M pointed this out to me recently: snip Thank you so much, Melissa. I am going to do this now! -- Best regards, Mary Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Chagning word-wrap margin for a single message?
Hello Melissa, On Thursday, January 02, 2003, 1:35 PM, you wrote: snip M Eek! I forgot to mention a couple of things... M I forgot to mention that after selecting the multiple paragraphs, hit M Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard. Then invoke the wc Quick M Template. Okay. I can do that. :) M Also...no need unwrap the regex macro pasted into my previous message. M Just copy/paste it into your QT as is. Thanks a bunch! -- Best regards, Mary Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Chagning word-wrap margin for a single message?
On Friday, January 3, 2003, 5:52:20 AM, Mary wrote: Hello Roelof, and Gavin, On Thursday, January 02, 2003, 12:23 PM, you wrote: GS The simplest way to prevent this is to wrap my stuff at about 50 GS characters also. Can I do this for a single message? Gavin, if I'm not misunderstanding you, it's the appearance of the message in your Reply text editor window that is bothering you. If that's not it, you should just ignore the rest of what I'm saying here. Thanks a lot, Mary. I've been happily using ALT-L to format my own blocks (even quoted replies). It just never occurred to me that it might work for a doubly-quoted block. Excellent software indeed. Regards, Gavin Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Chagning word-wrap margin for a single message?
Hello Gavin, On Thursday, January 02, 2003, 9:09 PM, you wrote: snip G Thanks a lot, Mary. ... My pleasure. But you already knew more than I did. I just learned about Alt L today. :) G ... Excellent software indeed. Yes, excellent. Did you see Melissa Reese's post to me in this thread, regarding a regular expression making it possible to format the entire message in one click? (She had that from moderator Allie Martin.) -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 1 Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
