Re: Thunderbird: definable external editor

On 1/7/2010 1:56 AM, Neil wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>
>> please note the line-wrap problems in my immediately preceding post,
>> 'Automatic offline mode', which came of my attempt to reflow the last
>> paragraph.
>
> From my point of view only the end of your last paragraph flowed
> correctly; the rest was all hard wrapped to 76 columns.
>
With a little experimenting, I managed to find out why that happened: 
Not knowing that it is only for long lines of quoted text, I used the 
Edit->Rewrap command in that post, which hard-wrapped the lines. I had 
to do a fair amount of digging to find documentation on that command 
(finally found it in the knowledgebase article on plain-text email); 
there is no menu reference for the compose window.

The MIME Content-Type: format=flowed spec. indicates that a space 
character is to be appended to the ends of all flowed lines, whether 
they be new text or quoted text. Note that the quoted text in this 
conversation is flowed, and Thunderbird renders it correctly. 
Edit->Rewrap hard-wraps, which is not spec. Bug, or (deliberate design) 
feature?