Qrux wrote: > Today, with GUI clients and web-based clients, line-wrapping while > composing is no longer nearly as common--if even an option. So, > the stronger assumption today might be that clients cannot > line-wrap while composing. I'm asking the question about clients > because if the client is indeed a textual one, it's likely to be > FOSS, and as such, could be changed/configured to wrap lines on > the way in. If I had the source to Apple's mail client, I'd take > a crack at auto-line-wrap-on-compose. I don't, so I'm trying to > get at whether we can add tools.
For what it's worth, I use seamonkey and it wraps just fine. It does not automatically wrap in the reply and I think that's proper. In some cases, e.g. code, you don't want the reply to wrap. I can re-wrap the entire message with edit->rewrap or just the part I want by selecting the appropriate portion and again edit->rewrap. I'll also note that I only need to do that for a few messages. Most 'do the right thing'. The settings in the client are reasonably flexible. I have it set to convert outgoing mail to plain text, forward message in-line, and to wrap messages at 72 characters. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
