600857 - plaintext autowrap.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Mestnik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.59 Safari/534.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100913 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.7

I'm having a problem with line wrapping when composing text emails.  I'd like the lines to autowrap like they would in say jed, the current behavior is like vi.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose email with configuration set for plaintext only.
2. Type a long line in a window that's skinny.
3. Send to self or equivalent.
4. View message in window that's wide.

Actual Results:  
Line in view is longer then line in composer.

Expected Results:  
Line in view should be identical(WYSIWYG) to the line in composer.

Comment 1

[Vincent (caméléon)]

Do you mean that you shouldn't see an horizontal scroll bar and that the text should auto-adapt (and go back to a new line) to the size of the windows? Can you provide a screen-shot?

Comment 2

[Mike Mestnik]

Scroll bar(s) are another matter entirely.  This bug report is about text and white space.  The white space in the editor looks differently then the white space produced in the viewer.

An editor window 7 chars wide.
***********
* This is *
* a       *
* broken  *
* line.   * \n
***********

Viewing the same message in a window 22 chars wide.
==========================
= This is a broken line. = \n
==========================

The first line is broken because it has line breaking spaces AKA word wrap.  The second is broken because it does not look like the first, the word wrap has changed.

Expected results:
==========================
= This is                =
= a                      =
= broken                 =
= line.                  = \n
==========================