Alto Speckhardt wrote:
The windows-editor doesn't know a thing about quote handling, reformating or many other features intrinsic for writing emails. Intrinsic to me, that is.
MicroEd never needed things like reflow on sending, and alas, TB! doesn't have it for the Windows editor.
ST> The behaviour you want from MicroEd cannot be implemented there ST> because it does not use "soft" linefeeds. If it will start using ST> soft linefeeds, it will become Windows Editor and will have ST> different functionality. That's what I'm trying to say. I disagree. Take the editor of any other email-program: Every one of those performs adequate in this matter, with no problems at all.
However, they can't reflow quoted text quite as elegantly as TB! does. ThunderBird here will reformat quoted text. However, only after selecting the text to be reformatted. Same for Mulberry. Tedious.
Besides, "soft-LF" most certainly cannot be the reason of the dilemma:
They are. MicroEd doesn't recognise or do soft-LF's. It's the root of the issue.
The problem is rather that MicroEd removes hard-CRs. If it would just leave them where I type them there would not be a problem.
It doesn't recognise your hard-CR's differently from the ones it inserts itself. I guess you're speaking of the auto-format feature. While you're typing with notepad and the text is flowed as you type, soft-lf's are inserted at the end of each line in your draft. However, with autoformat, TB! inserts hard-LF's. If you put one yourself and start typing, TB! will remove it and reflow your text.
If I want to end the current line, I insert a LF to continue in the next line. If after that I want an extra empty line, I insert an other LF. If I do not want one, I don't. That's it. Why does MicroEd have to make easy things that complex?
Because it doesn't use soft-lf's. Unusual, yes; so that we may enjoy some of the advantages of this. But that's how it works.
Everything you mention is one of the reasons for me not to use the Windows Editor. I don't need nor want all those design-options, I want an editor that performs the basic email-tasks - and stops right there without trying to second-guess me. MicroEd trys to be clever and do things without being directed to, and that's what it shouldn't do.
It would help a lot if you understood what it was doing. -- -= Curtis =- PGPKey: http://rsakey.aimlink.name -=-=- Portable: survives system reboot.
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