[Users] Message composition editing is primitive

[sylpheed at 911networks.com]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 22:05:43 +0200
Lewis <lewyssmith at free.fr> wrote:

>I hesitate to raise this point because it is so basic; and I do not
>wish to seem to criticize all the good work that makes Claws-Mail.
>
>Yet the fact remains that editing text while composing messages is
>primitive in that deleting text does not shrink the paragraph - but
>inserting text does grow it. It is tedious to repeatedly tidy
>paragraphs 'manually' after text deletion: put the cursor in the
>right place, delete end-of-line (which joins the following text),
>insert something (a space) - bingo!
>Talking of which, hyphens ' - ' cause paragraph breaks on tidying.
>
>This was the Achilles Heel of the original Opera mail, which they
>eventually sorted to proper dynamic paragraph reformatting. I was
>disappointed in switching to Claws-Mail to find the old behaviour
>again; and hope that each new release will fix it. This is my 3rd
>release now (version 3.17.3g), no improvement in this very basic
>area.
>
>I would hope that there is perhaps a GTK class which does it; or some
>other standard solution. I would not expect anyone to program it,
>very complicated.

There's already a solution: "par" which is what I use:

http://www.nicemice.net/par/

and I use it as an action that I have tied to "Ctrl+;"  I just
highlight the section or sections and done...

If there's some better way please chime in...

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