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(...) Whoa, how did that happen? Your browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) posted one of the quoted paragraphs as one super long line. David, how did that look in your text-edit box when you clicked the Reply button? The web (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) About the same as the original message. (...) I do lots of similar clean-up in my e-mail replies, and I might not have remembered to put carriage returns in when shifting the ">" marks around. I just did a preview on this message, and it was (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, that's consistent with the way <TEXTAREA WRAP=SOFT> behaves. (...) Do you mean that you go in and edit text in the quoted ">" lines? I was guessing that's what happened... you typed something that caused the paragraph to reformat, and your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) nah, some people (like myself) do use the > and < every so often in posts. Having the server cut it off and start a new line will not give me the desired effect. I think the only thing that needs to be done is for posters to hit the 'enter' (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) yah, but do you do it on lines that are 120+ characters long? :-) (...) nod. (...) ya, preview is wicked important...even with plain text!! --Todd (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) David, Could you do me a favor and do that whole thing again? Compose a reply to the original message at the top of this thread, and do exactly what you did before? And tell me what shows up now in the preview display? I think I made the form (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hey, y'know what? Maybe the server is taking enough responsibility here for the mistake. True, it's not the server's fault if the user botches up quoting and submits a line 500 characters long -- but it *is* the server's fault for accepting a (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Doy, that should say "...isn't taking enough..." That's what I get for hurrying right before the train goes underground.* --Todd * but Wow, at Government Center on the Blue Line in Boston, two levels underground, I'm getting four bars of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hi Todd, I've seen this behavior in a few other people's posts. One other thing that I notice is that if you view the entire thread nested on one page, the offending post appears correctly. But if you view the entire thread linearly on one (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Correctly meaning wrapped (which is technically the incorrect way to display super long lines), or correctly meaning with no line breaks (e.g., true to the literal representation of the line)? (...) I don't think I've seen this. Can you point (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Normally, no, but in this case I was going through and doing heavy tweakage to the original text to make it a bit more interesting to read. (...) Er, sorta. I actually did most of the reformat myself, by deleting ">" marks in the middle of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It looks normal, regardless of whether I use carriage returns to seperate the lines, or if I let the lines wrap to the ">" marks. (...) It would be a lot easier to tell if it's fixed if I had tried to do this before you tweaked it so I could (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | It's Baaaaaaack! (was Re: "The Matrix:Reloaded " & "X2 :X-Men United" available in DVD now)
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(...) Here's a (URL) new one> for you, and I had absolutely nothing to do with it. Furthermore, it's not even from a reply. Check the second paragraph... (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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