On Wed 20 Nov 2024 at 11:35:28 (-0500), eben@… wrote: > > So, naturally you use an editor to compose your posts. > > Not sure why you would assume that, but let's run with it. How would I > configure Tbird do do such a thing? I see no relevant settings for "editor" > or "path" but maybe they're hidden in the weeds.
False assumptions, I guess. I'd assumed that most people would want to compose their emails with the same editor that they generally worked with, so that the same commands are used for handling multiple files, cut and paste, etc: all the usual things for assembling the reply. eg: https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived in the case of TB. On Wed 20 Nov 2024 at 17:56:07 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 09:49:58AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > So, naturally you use an editor to compose your posts. Have you > > set it up to remove trailing spaces from files when it saves them? > > No, in another arm of this thread OP confirms that it's Thunderbird > adding the separator and the sig (from a file). So either TB is messing > up, or something on the way to us. I'd venture it's the first. Well, posts elsewhere talk about people editing the signature and/or separator on a per post basis, which would seem to imply that TB is adding them at the start of composing, rather than tacking them on at the last moment as the message is sent. (The former corresponds with mutt's signature behaviour, ie you see it when composing; the latter with mutt's Date behaviour, ie you don't see that header.) So, having composed the post, whichever editor is being used would normally save a file and exit, before it sends that file to some other process. Again, posts elsewhere make it obvious that stripping trailing space when saving is a popular option. AFAICT eben's TB sends the message directly to gmx, so I can't see the blame being anywhere other than on eben's side. In conclusion though, I guess you can apply s/editor/TB compositor/ when reading my post, whatever a TB compositor is. Editor AFAIAC mumble mumble… Cheers, David.
