Ed Mullen <e...@mungeedmullen.net> wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>> I found by accident that the 2.14.1 version we are using now has
>> a nasty bug in the message composition mode.
>>
>> When composing in HTML, and after setting a custom font size in
>> the options for message composition (default is medium, set to
>> small or large for example) the composer peppers a lot of nested
>> <font size="x"> </font> tags in the message.   Many more than
>> are required.  It is not clear to me when it inserts a new one,
>> maybe after backspacing or similar.  I saw messages with 20
>> or more nested font tags.
>>
>> What makes it even worse is that stupid change (made a couple of
>> versions before) to pretty-print the outgoing HTML.  It is
>> indented based on the tag level, so each level of <font> indents
>> it more.  There is absolutely no point in doing that, it only
>> wastes space and bandwidth for no purpose.
>>
>> The combined result is HTML crap that even Microsoft would be ashamed of.
>>
>> I think some priority has to be given to fix both bugs.
>> The pretty-printing should at least be made optional, defaulting
>> to off, and the change that introduced the <font size> problem should
>> be reverted or looked at.
>>
>> I had to disable font size preselection (by lockPref) temporarily
>> to work around the issues it causes.  But I know of no way to turn
>> off the pretty-printing.
>>
>
> Is this what you're after?
>
> editor.prettyprint

Yes something like that, but the above pref works in the editor
(composer).  I need a similar pref that affects the mail composition
in the same way that the above pref affects the composer.

(I remember I tested this before and now tested it again on 2.14.1
but it really only affects the composer)
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