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Hi name4anand,
On 18 June 2001 at 04:21:10 -0700 (which was 12:21 where I live)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to Marck D Pearlstone and made these
points:
nen> Yes, but doesn't Auto-format just basically treat all returns as
nen> soft-returns unless it is a blank line?
Yes, but that's easy enough to deal with.
<snip>
nen> I don't want to have to use a blank line every time I want to
nen> have a short line. Am I mistaken or is there some way around
nen> that? I tried the 1.53bis version just now and it is the same
nen> with Auto-Format as TheBat! has been since that feature came out
nen> I believe.
nen> So Auto-Format to me is worse than without it.
Ctrl-Shift-F toggles it on and off. I leave it off and toggle it on
when I want to use it.
nen> I will agree that TheBat!'s editor has a lot going for it. The
nen> Alt-L feature that rewraps quoted material correctly is
nen> brilliant, I love it. I just don't want to have to use it, it
nen> should be automatic.
I *completely* disagree. Some long lines are long for a *reason*. For
instance, they contain URLs or regular expression macros. I want
complete control over which lines wrap and which lines don't.
nen> I think it would be so much better if the editor:
nen> a. included an option to make all use of the 'enter' key
nen> translate to a hard return and all other line breaks equal soft
nen> returns. That way you can have your forced text breaks but still
nen> be able to have that 'auto-format' type of wrapping while
nen> editing.
Agreed and, hopefully, the planned rewrite of the editor will include
that functionality. It needn't be optional either.
nen> b. wrapped quoted material in a reply (but we already agree this
nen> would be a nice feature and hopefully implemented soon.) I would
nen> hope that the macro gets put in as the standard reply format so I
nen> can recommend TB! to friends who don't want to mess around with
nen> the client much. :)
Hmmm... we'll see. I wouldn't like it to be the default because of the
fact that "quotes" should (by default) be a representation of what was
said in the same format.
nen> And no, I am not some OE user who wants the world to conform to
nen> the popular standard. I don't like OE.
I'm glad to hear it. (I can see you're a Becky user anyway).
nen> I've tried almost 20 different mail clients in the past few years
nen> trying to find what I am looking for without success.
<snip>
Well, good luck with the search. Thanks for your input and sharing
your views with us here. Hopefully we will see some of these
improvements in forthcoming versions.
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator and fellow end user
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