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Brian Cairns [BC] wrote
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BC> When I reply to a message with no hard line breaks (for example,
BC> an HTML message), the original quoted text wraps at 200
BC> characters! What is going on??

Strange that it does this. Just to check, I just copied a paragraph of
text from Word into TB!'s editor. It was pasted as a single line of
text, 761 characters in length.

BC> I would think that it should either:

BC> 1) not wrap at all

Normally, this is what it would do. It doesn't interfere or alter the
formatting of pasted material which is exactly what other editors do.
What creates the confusion with this is that most editors come with a
soft-wrap toggle switch to make unwrapped text readable without having
to scroll sideways. They however do not wrap the text unless you
specifically tell them to, by doing a manual rewrap. TextPad here on
my system can be configured to not soft-wrap and treat all wrapping as
hard wrapping but that's unusual. TB!'s editor doesn't support soft
wrapping, that's all.

BC> 2) wrap at a character limit that makes SENSE, like 70 or 80. (Or
BC> user specified)

There's that paste formatted option. But this will only reformat the
first paragraph of a multiple paragraph text clip.

BC> Where the heck is this 200 character limit coming from?

I'd wager that it came from the clipboard and hence from the source
document.

BC> 1) Put the cursor in each paragraph and hit Alt+L to manually
BC> reformat. Great. What if I have 50 paragraphs?

If you wish to edit the material then you're in trouble. :-) Otherwise
leave it alone and the recipients viewer will soft-wrap the text at
their viewer window edge. You can see what I mean by just saving as a
draft, a message with a long line of text and then viewing the
message. You'll see that the viewer window wraps it.

BC> 2) A mention of a recursive macro to accomplish the same thing,
BC> but accompanied by a warning not to use this macro as it doesn't
BC> work right for many circumstances!

I've heard of them and seen them posted on a number of occasions. I
usually don't paste 50 paragraphs requiring reformatting so... <g>

BC> This seems like a gross oversight in such a great, flexible
BC> program, why can't we just change this 200 character wrap limit???

There's no such limit.

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