[Users] Message composition editing is primitive

[Lewis]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 10:40:01 +0100
Abrolag <abrolag at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 00:51:16 -0400
> Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Leon Fisk wrote:
> >>When you're done edit one of your lines above the area that needs to
> >>be reformatted. Hit the end key and then delete making the line too
> >>long. Type space and everything below will reformat to the given
> >>line wrapping. It takes some getting use to but I like it now :)    
> >
> >I've done something similar to this for years now whenever my
> >paragraphs get messed up, which usually happens when a dash is used
> >or when inserting new text into existing text. My method is to delete
> >and reinsert a space in a line above the messed up text, which causes
> >everything below the cursor to reformat itself properly. When that
> >(occasionally) fails to work on all of it, I drop down lower in the
> >text and repeat the process to clean up the rest.
> >  
> 
> It seems everyone came up with the same fix :)

Which is what I described in the original post; and exactly the hassle
one can do without. Try a Bugzilla comment to see the difference - or a
million other places like on-line form text fields. The 'fix' has been
around for say 20+years, and things moved on not much later. 

Lewis