[Bug 271000] New: Bring smart rewrapping from KNode to KMail ;-)

[jos poortvliet]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271000

           Summary: Bring smart rewrapping from KNode to KMail ;-)
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.13.6
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: messageviewer
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: jospoortvliet at gmail.com


Version:           1.13.6 (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

KMail allows to wrap mails. While I hate that, it's a necessity - apparently
many mail clients can not handle unwrapped mail properly.

Unfortunately, KMail can't handle *wrapped* text very well. To be precise, it
doesn't re-wrap text. If you have a wide screen monitor your message view pane
still can only be be 80 chars wide and if you have a small screen sentences
leave one word on the next line. Mails in a long thread get screwed up
threading because words get indeed transferred to the next line making the
whole "hide what ppl said previously from 3rd level onwards" not work. So the
lack of re-wrapping basically breaks that feature too.

Now KNode can re-wrap quoted text in the composer (but only there, not in the
viewer). Imho KMail should do that anywhere, any time: in the composer AND the
viewer, making the text always fit the window, links work properly even if they
are cut of by wrapping etc.

There is a number of bugs related to this, the following all have to do with
wrapping and are (partially) solved if kmail has smarter (re-)wrapping:
259996 "Wrap columns" setting breaks long links in messeges 
62541     The user should be able to disable word-wrapping on the preview
window.
78302     links in text emails do not work when they are sent pre-linewrapped 
79144     selective (paragraph-wise) word wrap
105485     Auto word wrap feature lost in saved drafts
119677     kmail line wraps inserted file
124555     Autoindent wrapped lines in the composer
151981     smart copy on wrapped, single line select
209030     long URLs with "-" in kmail are broken: are wrapped and the second
part doesn't belong to the link
163609     Wordwrap breaks up URLs with dashes ('-') 

Reproducible: Always

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