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">" line wrapping subtleties
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:58:34 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Laswell wrote:
> 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?
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> About the same as the original message.
OK, that's consistent with the way <TEXTAREA WRAP=SOFT> behaves.
> > 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.
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> 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.
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 browser joined all those separate lines into one big
single line. I suppose the server ought to break ">" lines if there are
multiple ">" characters on the line.
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: ">" line wrapping subtleties
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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)
| | | Re: ">" line wrapping subtleties
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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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