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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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(...) 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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