On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 16:10, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>
> > I'm using Evolution 1.2.2-5, as comes with Red Hat 9. Much of the
> > time, it wraps as you request, but, for instance, in replying to
> > this message, I see it's not.
>
> > I looked through the menus, and can't find an option to set word
> > wrap either.
>
> I tried out evolution for a couple of weeks - I like most of the
> features except for the editor. I must have searched arround 20 times
> - on how to configure line-wrap - but couldn't locate it.
>
> I'd lile some paragraphs wrapped - but not others (for example code).
> So I'm back to pine with emacs. - and getting aquainted with the newer
> pine features.
A common misconception about evolution is that the formatting toolbar
only works if you are composing HTML mail. That is not the case. Left,
centre, and right justification, indent and unindent, and bulleted and
numbered/roman/alphabetical lists all work for plain text mail as well.
Importantly, this means that the Normal and Preformat styles work. Text
in Normal style wraps to the width of the window as you edit and when
sent is wrapped at 72 characters (I believe that's the right number
anyway, and it is hard coded - you can't change it to something else).
Preformat text is never wrapped, not when editing and not when sent.
When you reply to a message, often the quoted text is set as preformat
(I'm unsure of what exactly the conditions are which trigger this). If
you select it and change it to Normal style, it will wrap fairly
intelligently (i.e. it will keep ">" at the beginning of each line even
when rewrapping). You may need to remove some LF/CRs from the quoted
text, but I'm not sure that is Evolutions fault, as opposed to the fault
of the mail program the original sender used.
So, in brief:
* no you can't alter the number of characters text wraps at, but
that is probably a good thing;
* yes, you can prevent some lines from breaking, and also add
other ASCII formatting.
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