Please don't top post. On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 12:00 -0400, Benjamin Selzer wrote: > It's silly that the Evolution composer can't simply visibly break the > line while composing yet not break the line in the actual email sent.
And in the past I've seen complaints about composers that have done exactly that along the lines of "why doesn't my text look the same after I sent it as it does in the composer". > Despite all excuses posted here, it's simply a missing and crucial > feature. Even every phone can do this. And Evolution can do lots of things a phone can't. They are different bits of software. If it bothers you, which it seems to, then file a bug. > > The pasting code excuse is preposterous. That's a very specific use > case. They could have CODE in the drop down for that specific use > case. Well, there is a bit for it, it's called "Preformatted", that's what it's for, for inserting preformatted text that you don't want the composer to wrap (which is why, it seems foolishly, I suggested that you use it). What you really want is a new type of formatting - I think it's normally called 'Flowing Text' - i.e the text is soft broken at the composer edge, but those soft breaks aren't translated to hard breaks when the mail is sent. But, can I just say that viewing that sort of thing on a desktop with a wide window is not pleasant. The text just stretches across the whole window - for instance the text in the email you sent, that I'm replying to, has a line that is over 200 characters long on my screen - if I try I can just about stretch the window so the whole of the first paragraph is one long line of 250 characters. It's silly I know, but I'm just trying to point out that it is virtually impossible to create something that everyone will be content with. The best thing to do is to file a bug or enhancement and let the devs decide how they are going to deal with it if at all. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list