192730 - Automatic wrap doesn't work when I reply to a letter with a long line in it

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 20240

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Konstantin Stefanov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I have "Wrap plain text message at" set to 72 in
Preferences->Mail&News->Composition. But when I press "Reply" button on a
message which has a long line with spaces but without newline symbols, in the
composiotion window that line becomes quoted but remains unwrapped, so there is
a horyzontal scroll bar in the bottom of the window, and only beginning of that
line is seen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send yourself a message with a long line (example message which reproduces
bug is in the attach).
2. Read it with Mozilla and press "Reply" button

Actual Results:  
In a composition window that line remains unwrapped and only the beginning of it
is seen. To see the end horyzontal scrollbar (which appears) may be used.

Expected Results:  
The line becomes wrapped according to settings, all part of what previously was
one line should be quoted.

Comment 1

[Konstantin Stefanov]

Attachment: The message I sent to myself to ensure the bug is here.

I am not sure that attach will not be wrapped during processing. In the body of
the message there is only ONE but long line.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

I see this too on OS/2.

Comment 3

[Jesse Moorman]

I agree, but I think this is a known issue. See
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32100
where a recent comment references this bug.

AFAICT, some people there apparently don't consider it a bug. :-(

Comment 4

[Konstantin Stefanov]

This may be not a bug when the letter is in Quoted-Printable (if I am not
mistaken, there is limitation on line length when using QP, which is sometimes
not strictly obeyed by some mail clients). But when the letter is in plain-text
it is certainly a bug, because the orginal letter does not break any standards,
but not all lines in the reply are wrapped (as I expect them to be).

Comment 5

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

"Wrap plain text message at" by desing does not apply to quotes. Why is this?
You see it for people using braindead readers like Outbreak Excess. They also
wrap quoted lines which results in something like this:

> This is the beginning of a quoted line longer than
the
> column you chose in "Wrap plain text message at" in
the
> preferences.

Even if you would add quote symbols you would end up with that pattern. To avoid
it we would need to automatically apply (and you can already do it manually if
you wish) edit/rewrap. But there are messages where the line folding is
significant. To name a few:

- code listings
- test "tables"
- ASCII art
- lyrics
- situation where someone underlined a word
                          ~~~~~~~~~~
- anything with *text highlighting* (if "highligthing" wraps
  to the next line it won't work anymore)

So doing this automatically would create a dataloss (the formatting contains
significant information).

If you want to do it anyways, there must be an option to turn it off to avoid
those proplems.

Since there is good resign why it is how it is now, it is not a bug, but an
"enhacement".

pi

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Sorry, I just found this to be a dupe.

pi

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20240 ***

Comment 7

[Vedran Miletic]

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