Hi Terry, > > It might be possible to test this by entering > > > > Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. > > > > into a Thunderbird draft, then selecting it and pasting it into ‘pr > > -tv’ to see if the first space has already been corrupted. > > I wasn't able to successfully use pr because it tried to treat the > text as a file: > > $ pr -t -v "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
Yes, that's a long filename containing spaces. Instead: - Run ‘pr -tv’ in the shell by pressing Enter. - It will then be reading its standard input, e.g. what you type. - Copy and paste from Thunderbird's text-entry box to the shell's window. - pr will be given its input as every line ends so you may have to press Enter after the paste. - pr will print its version onto its standard output, which is also the terminal. - Signal the end of pr's standard input by typing Ctrl-D to it, that being the terminal's default end-of-file character. - The shell prompt will re-appear. > This was whether I had cycled the text through Thunderbird or not. It may need you to type the text into Thunderbird, including the two spaces rather than, for example, paste in text. > I'm afraid that things will stay the same until the Thunderbird team > decide to fix it. Or until https://www.betterbird.eu fix it, if they haven't already. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2025-01-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
