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Re: "The Matrix:Reloaded " & "X2 :X-Men United" available in DVD now
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Sat, 31 May 2003 16:07:51 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
Whoa, how did that happen?  Your browser 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?

     About the same as the original message.

The web interface automatically does line-wrapping when it receives your
message, but it doesn't break lines that begin with ">".  I'm trying to
figure out why your web browser submitted the ">" lines as a single long line.

     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 going to do the same thing.



Message has 2 Replies:
  ">" line wrapping subtleties
 
(...) 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)
  Re: "The Matrix:Reloaded " & "X2 :X-Men United" available in DVD now
 
(...) 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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  Re: "The Matrix:Reloaded " & "X2 :X-Men United" available in DVD now
 
(...) 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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