2916 - Line wrapping enhancements

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement, P3)

Description

[lchiang]

<transferred from Netscape internal bug database, bugsplat 329733 on 2/4/99>
Commented out the part about customer information.  If you need to see that, go
back to the bugsplat bug report.>

Communicator Professional Edition, Export,
Physical Memory Available to Windows:  65,052 KB, 76% Free
Tested on Windows 95, not on any other platform:

Communicator 4.5 PR2 and M15, Windows 95

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1 - I like being able to have long lines in my mail message wrap,
however, found a small side effect which is a little annoying.  If I
save the message with wrapped lines the saved text message is saved
with those lines wrapped.  This has actually caused me to have to
re-write a program that converts an emailed report to a format which I
can easily import into Excel.  The problem is annoying, however if I
must choose between one or the other, I would choose to have long
lines wrap.


------- Additional Comments From shartley  10/19/98 14:39 -------

Additional customer input on line wrapping....... (sorry!)...

I remember a little better the problem I had with Netscape 4.5
pr2 line wrapping.  I would like it if long lines could wrap without
actually inserting newline characters into the message itself.  I would also
like it if the long lines simply wrapped to the width of the window rather than
the line length set in preferences.

In other words, if I view a message with long lines and those lines
are wrapped to make it easier to read, I would like to be able to
stretch the window and the lines adjust accordingly.  Also, I would
like to be able to save or print the message without the extra newline
characters.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

qa contact to jeffu

Comment 2

[Phil Peterson]

I think this bug deals with reading messages, not sending them. So it probably
belongs to rhp. M9, though.

Comment 3

[rhp (gone)]

Sorry...moving enhancement requests out past B1.

- rhp

Comment 4

[sol]

I agree that this is a post-PR1 bug.

Comment 5

[Daniel Bratell]

This could be solved by implementing RFC 2646 as in bug 16398. I think I have a
fully working version of a libmime class for the receiving part of the RFC, but
it still needs some testing and maybe changes in places I don't know of.

Comment 6

[Phil Peterson]

format=flowed now works, which is one solution to the problems presented here.
Marking this fixed.

Comment 7

[fenella]

Linux ((2000-04-21-08 M16)
Win32 (2000-04-21-09 M16)
Mac (2000-04-21-08 M16)
Mac and Linux :
 HTML: line wraps to fit window size
 Plain text: line width shows 72 chars
Win32: 
 HTML: line wraps to fit window size
 Plain text: line width shows 72 chars in source file but in view message, it
wraps to fit window size (There is a bug to address the window wrap issue in
plain text)
Since line wrap enhancement is fixed. Mark this bug verified.