Allegedly, on or about 7 January 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > Anyway, I don't think automatically altering a URL is a good idea. > At least in the way I understand the OP's feature request. Me neither. > I read it as the "copy/paste" function was somehow supposed to > recognize that the destination was to be a browser and then "fix" the > URL. Doesn't sound very practical to me. I think that was more the browser's parsing of text pasted into it, making a not-too-unreasonable assumption that line-breaks pasted into its address gadget are not intentional. As far as I'm concerned, mail clients should recognise links as they're entered, and not subject them to auto-line breaking (a few do). If it wants to wrap the display, that's another matter (separate from the actual content). At least copy and paste, or right-click actions, would get the full address un-screwed-up. I can see convenience in having browsers automatically ignore embedded line breaks in pasted addresses (I'm sure I've seen some do that). I can also see that bringing its own set of problems when people copy and paste too much, or malcontents seeing it as a way to fool people's mail auto anti-malware scanning and try to get nitwits to visit dangerous sites (though, to be honest, you cannot protect fools from themselves). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-202.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 30 15:39:32 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. The mindset of software designers: You know that feature that you, and many thousands of other users, found useful? We removed it, because we didn't like it. We also hard-coded the default settings that you keep customising. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
