[Bug 311541] New: Improved wrapping and handling of the message quote marker

[Christian]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311541

            Bug ID: 311541
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: 4.9.3
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: Improved wrapping and handling of the message quote
                    marker
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: joulupukin.tontut at yandex.ru
          Hardware: Gentoo Packages
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: composer
           Product: kmail2

This may be related to bug 271000, but it is a different suggestion (because I
am not familiar with KNode).
In the Standard templates, there is only one setting for "Quote marker" (I
think the default is ">" or "> "). However, this is unsatisfactory because it
doesn't distinguish clearly the marker from where the text starts. E.g., if you
set it to ">" and reply to a reply, the lines start like this

>>This is the original text
>>of my message...

Or if you set it to "> " and reply to a reply, the lines start like this
> > This is the original text
> > of my message...

With both options, eventually there will be line breaks that mess up the
"system".

If you add the following setting: "Include space between quote marker and
message?" (yes/no), then you can have the quote marker set to ">" and you can
get the following:
>> This is the original
>> text of the message...

(I think it should be the default that the space is present after the markers,
but not between markers.)
It would be easy to organise the wrapping (i.e., to add a marker, first strip
all the markers, counting how many, then rewrap it to have space on the line
for an additional marker at the start, then prepend the markers). When the text
is indented the first time, two "places" have to be removed from the width
allocated to the text, one for the marker and one for the space. For every
subsequent indentation, only one "place" is removed.

It would greatly help implement a reasonable line wrapping, because it becomes
clear where the original text starts. (That is, after the space that follows
the markers.) As an advanced technique on rewrapping, it would be nice to
program so that spurious spaces between the markers are also removed
automatically, but this is optional.

What do you think, is this idea expressed sufficiently clearly for a clever
programmer to implement that?

Reproducible: Always

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