On Saturday, December 29, 2001 2:41:12 PM, Marck D Pearlstone wrote:
S>> Is it normal, that the BAT cannot wrap correctly? Whenever I paste S>> a text, it just keeps on going towards a few meters outside the S>> right side of my monitor - why can it not wrap it? > Because it is not supposed to unless you use "Paste formatted" > (Shift-Ctrl-Ins). This is by design. S>> I was told by one of the programmers, that I would have to use some S>> keyboard combination, but that doesn't work out correctly all the S>> time, since I sometimes have certain formatted texts, that lose all S>> their formatting once I do that. > That's why it's not supposed to reformat when pasting normally. I seldom paste text when I edit a message, so I've no problem using <alt> L if that happens occasionally. But I change very often text that I've written, and I find it quite irritating that I have to use <alt> L continually to keep the text readable. When I use auto-wrap I want to have auto-wrap, and not free formatting. The problem is that TB tries to combine two different methods that are not really compatible into one option. Auto-format is useless for me, as I often use indented and/or shorter lines. I think it would be much better two have two different options: 1. auto-wrap (as long as you edit the program uses soft returns, which are converted to hard returns when you save the file, and with the enter key you can force a hard return), without free format (so if you want to move the cursor ahead of the text you have to insert spaces or tabs - I have no problem with that), 2. no auto-wrap and free format (you can move the cursor everywhere). The editor as it now is, is definitely unpractical when it tries to combine these options. I find this one of the flaws of TB (which is further still the best mailprogram I know). Peter Smitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~psmitt http://www.fine-art.com/psmitt -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
