Re: Word-Wrap cuts links

Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:50:50 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Organization	openSUSE GNU/Linux
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Dne čtvrtek 19. října 2017 10:49:19 CEST, ianseeks napsal(a):
> On Thursday, 19 October 2017 09:44:19 BST Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> > 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"...
> > ;-)
> 
> Thanks for that info, thats very useful especially if someone wants to stick
> with word-wrap.

See also KMail settings and its Modules section. :-)
BTW, one of the results of KDE PIM survey was that KMail's plugins are not 
easy to find and this should be improved in the UI. :-)

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Vojtěch Zeisek
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