Bug 146190

Summary: Linebreak with fixed text width implemented incorrectly
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Richard Hartmann <richih-kde>
Component: composerAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist CC: luigi.toscano
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: SVN trunk (KDE 4)   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Richard Hartmann 2007-05-31 10:11:54 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I have been using pine as my primary mail client for a few years now, but I am using KMail for checking on a few of the less used accounts.

I set the text width for both pine & KMail to 72 to allow inline answering without breaking lines for people reading on 80 space terminals.

When I reply to a message written with text width 72 or above in pine, the text I am replying to in correctly indented. When I do the same with KMail, the text I am answering to is forced into a width of 72, creating line breaks and defeating the purpose of the text width.

As a side note, a reformat option like vim's gggqG (just write a few long and short lines, :set tw=72 do gggqG) would be extremely helpful.
Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2007-06-07 18:10:32 UTC 
Changed this to a wish. 
If you set line break at 72, it will break at 72.
Any additional behavior is another feature.
Comment 2 Richard Hartmann 2007-06-08 01:59:37 UTC 
That depends on how you define the line break. Is it for all text or for the text you type? Especially seeing the way quoting in email works, I would assume only the latter can make sense. As I can not change its severity, I can only hope that the retagging does not make this issue disappear in the depth of
Comment 3 Richard Hartmann 2007-12-18 18:59:22 UTC 
In light of the impeding KDE4 release, I am going through all bug reports I am involved in. To the best of my knowledge, this issue is still open.
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 09:00:16 UTC 
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 5 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:27:27 UTC 
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.