Re: Word-Wrap cuts links

Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:44:19 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Organization	openSUSE GNU/Linux
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Dne čtvrtek 19. října 2017 10:34:56 CEST, ianseeks napsal(a):
> On Thursday, 19 October 2017 04:22:47 BST O. Sinclair wrote:
> > On 10/18/17 14:19, ianseeks wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 09:11:42 BST Nils Kassube wrote:
> > >> ianseeks wrote:
> > >>> On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 04:40:08 BST Vishnu V K wrote:
> > >>>> Is there any way for links to avoid breaking due to the word-wrap?
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> It is very annoying for the recipient, when I send long links in
> > >>>> email, and also for me, if I have to disable the word-wrap every
> > >>>> time I'm sending such a link.
> > >>> 
> > >>> I had the same issue.  The only way around it seems to be turn
> > >>> word-wrap off in the Composer settings and set your composer window
> > >>> to the width you want the the lines to "wrap"
> > >> 
> > >> Then there seems to be a regression in newer Kmail versions (mine is
> > >> 4.13.3). My composer is set to a width of 72 and a link like this
> > >> <https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/KRACK-Hersteller-Updates-und-Ste
> > >> llungnahmen-3863455.html> is wrapped in the composer display but it
> > >> should be unwrapped in the mail as it gets sent.
> > > 
> > > Thats is what i thought it always did but when it gets sent now a
> > > <space> is inserted at the wrap point so the receiver got a broken
> > > link.  No-one else seemed to think it was a problem when i asked on the
> > > list so i didn;t create a bug for it.> > 
> > 
> > A workaround is to use tinyurl.com
> 
> Indeed but thats an extra step :)  maybe it could be a plugin to do that
> automatically  :)

Right-click in KMail composer, last item is "Generate Shortened URL"... ;-)

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Vojtěch Zeisek
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