Re: Re: Manual line breaks in emails

On 3/28/26 2:07 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 3/28/26 12:04 PM, Dale wrote:
>> I'm not sure what I should see.  The part above is ever how wide my
>> window will allow.
> That's what format=flowed does, cause the logical line to wrap at the
> window width.
>
> Take a look at the message source (control U) and you'll see that the
> physical lines are wrapped at ~72 characters.
>
>> I'd like it to wrap at some number, maybe 80, maybe 100.
> It sounds like you are wanting the display of the logical line to be
> wrapped at 80 or maybe 100 characters.
>
> That's controlled by the window width.  Read:  Make the window narrower.
>    ;-)
>
>> I'd like to play with the setting a bit.
> The setting effects the number of characters on the physical line in the
> message source.
>
> The window width effects the number of characters on the logical line.
>
>> The arthritis in my neck make turning my head harder.  So I like to
>> read more narrow stuff by moving just my eyes.
> Fair enough.
>
> The wonderful thing about format=flowed is I can send physical lines 750
> characters.  The logical line will only be as many characters wide as
> your window (or view port as it's called on mobile devices).
>
>> I can help with this in Firefox by making Tree Style Tabs wide.
>> That narrows the window space available for articles and such.
> You can do similar by adjusting the width of the folder pane on the
> left.  (My folder pane is full height on the left.  I think it can be
> changed.)  --  Try "View" menu, "Layout" sub-menu, "Classic View" or
> "Vertical View".
>
> You can also open the message in it's own window and resize it to your
> liking.
>
> I exceedingly rarely have the message window or preview pane the full
> width of my screen.
>
> One of the nice things about format=flowed is the text is re-wrapped to
> the window width as I resize it.
>
>> I have mailnews.wraplength set to 72.  I'm not sure it is wrapping tho.
> The mailnews.wraplength sets the wrap length of the physical lines in
> message source code of messages you send and has nothing to do with how
> many characters are displayed on a line for messages you receive.
>
>> The other wrap settings are set to true as well.
> Only one of the settings I listed is set to true, the other one is set
> to false.
>
>    - mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support = false
>
> disable_format_flowed_support does what it's name said and disabled
> support for format=flowed.
>
> If you have that set to true, I expect that my messages are all showing
> up as approximately 72 characters wide.
>
>> I'd think it would wrap but even when I narrow or widen the pane for
>> reading, it just expands to fit and is really wide.  It doesn't seem
>> to wrap.
> If disable_format_flowed_support is true, then I would expect that you
> would get a scroll bar under the text in the preview pane or reading
> window if you made the window / preview pane narrower than text.
>
> Conversely if disable_format_flowed_support is false, then Thunderbird
> should re-wrap the text to match the window / preview pane's width.
>
>> Odd.
> If you've disabled format=flowed, then not really.  At least not based
> on my understanding of your settings and format=flowed.
>
>
>


I set mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support to true and that 
makes it wrap in the message pane no matter how wide the pane is.  When 
I narrow the message pane, it also narrows the pane with subject, email 
and all that.  That pane I need to stay the same.  It took me a while to 
get that just right.  Now I have the massage pane like I want as well, 
wrapped and not wide. The part I'm typing is wide but I can likely deal 
with that.  At least I can read messages without hurting my neck so 
much.  Saves wear on my chair as sometimes I have to twist it around some.

Wrapping in the composer part would be nice but I'm hoping my change 
above doesn't affect what you receive tho.  Does this message look the 
same to you on your end?  If it changes, well, need to find a new plan.  
;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

P. S.  I just recently switched to Thunderbird from Seamonkey.  So this 
is a fairly new setup with a new user.