Bug 62541

Summary:	The user should be able to disable word-wrapping on the preview window.
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Stefanos Harhalakis <v13>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, drankinatty, jospoortvliet, luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271000
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Stefanos Harhalakis 2003-08-12 11:44:36 UTC

Version:           1.5.1 (using KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.6.0-test2

I believe that there should be an option for customizing word-wrapping on preview pane and on full window.
A function just like fixed-width, full-headers and html-view that could be assigned to a key whould be nice. 

There are many mails (like log-reports) that appear a lot better when not wrapped.

Currently the only way to display a message unwrapped is by using the 'view source' but this is not very comfortable..

TIA

<<V13>>

Comment 1 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-10 23:23:26 UTC

*** Bug 211173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 jos poortvliet 2011-11-23 22:55:01 UTC

Basically you're asking to un-wrap wrapped emails? I'm not sure from your description but if that's true the bug below is a duplicate of this one :D
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271000

Other related bugs:
259996 "Wrap columns" setting breaks long links in messeges 
62541     The user should be able to disable word-wrapping on the preview
window.
78302     links in text emails do not work when they are sent pre-linewrapped 
79144     selective (paragraph-wise) word wrap
105485     Auto word wrap feature lost in saved drafts
119677     kmail line wraps inserted file
124555     Autoindent wrapped lines in the composer
151981     smart copy on wrapped, single line select
209030     long URLs with "-" in kmail are broken: are wrapped and the second
part doesn't belong to the link
163609     Wordwrap breaks up URLs with dashes ('-')

Comment 3 Stefanos Harhalakis 2011-11-24 15:58:22 UTC

Hello,

We're 8 years wiser by now :-P

Ok... here it goes:

If you have a message with long lines (not wrapped) then kmail auto-wraps them when viewing it.

For example: If I send you an e-mail where each line is 200 chars wide, then you will see that with dynamic word-wrapping applied. This happens both in the preview pane and the message view. The only way to view the message without dynamic word-wrapping (word-wrapping to the width of the window) is by viewing its source.

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:07:02 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 01:01:06 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

Comment 6 jos poortvliet 2012-08-20 15:29:17 UTC

It is still valid. Although I'd recommend to solve the issue via this:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271000

Instead of adding options or keyboard shortcuts.