[Bug 174034] Word wrapping in effect even when turned off

[Matt Whitlock]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174034


Matt Whitlock <kde at mattwhitlock.name> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Matt Whitlock <kde mattwhitlock name>  2011-08-15 04:04:41 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> This bug is especially annoying when sending patches. If the patch has long
> lines, the composer window must be resized to be wide enough to prevent KMail
> from wordwrapping and thus corrupting the patch when sending.

Yes, exactly. And it's not just a problem when sending patches. The bottom line
is that KMail should *NEVER* be inserting hard line breaks into messages unless
word wrapping is enabled. If a line is wider than the composer window, it can
soft-wrap in the composer window, but that is an issue of the *editor*, not the
*document*. The size of my composer window should have absolutely no effect on
the content of the message I ultimately send.

And just to drive the point home, if I type a long paragraph of text that is
greater than 1000 characters, KMail must throw out 7bit content transfer
encoding as a possibility and use only quoted-printable or base64. It should
*NOT* just throw in a hard line break wherever it wants to. Again, the
*document* should be unchanged by whatever transfer encoding happens to be in
use.

For the record, the last version of KMail 1 that I used did all of this
perfectly right. (In fact it was one of the few MUAs that actually did.)

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