Alexander S. Kunz: > IMHO, the settings for the Windows editor should be separated from Microed. > > If one chooses to hard-wrap messages at column 72 or whatever, TB should do > so before sending to supply the same "WYSIWYG" principle of Microed. > > But if one chooses to use the "flowed" format (aka the way the Windows > editor is working now), it should a) add the "flowed" headers to the > outgoing message and b) not cause the false impression of wrapping by > formatting the text while typing (but using the fill window width just as > well).
No. I don't want format flowed. I want at least one typing mode capable to automatically reformat paragraphs separated by *one* hit of my return key when I'm editing the message, *and* I want to send my messages with hard returns at the end of each line. A proper solution, IMO, would be like the one proposed by Bill McQuillan in the bug report page that you indicated. If you don't want to call such an editor a wysiwyg one anymore, so be it. For me, it is: what I /see/ is exactly what I'll get when I send the message. Is what I /code/ that's different, and only while I'm typing, but who cares? TB already has another what-you-/code/-is-what-you-get editor, so let's people out here get at least one Agent-like editor, among the three (!) that TB already has. This thing is a must for a mail client, a primary and elemetary feature. There are two reasons why I didn't give up long time ago with TB: (1) Ritlabs introduced the "Windows-like" editor and I still hope they'll make it work the way I hope, (2) I desperately need templates, macros and automations. If I didn't need (2) I would have uninstalled The Bat and forgotten Ritlabs the split moment I realized the way TB forces me to type. -- Luca - e-mail: p.stevens at libero.it ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.64.01 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
