Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 69, Issue 6

(WARNING: top posting seems appropriate here...)

But Stucki, Microsoft knows what's good for you!

On 4 Nov 09, at 03:00, mailman-users-request (AT) python (DOT) org wrote:

From: "Chr. von Stuckrad" <stucki (AT) mi (DOT) fu-berlin.de
Date: 3 November 2009 04:03:23 PST (CA)
To: mailman-users (AT) python (DOT) org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] regexp help (OT: Edit and Mail)


On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, Savoy, Jim wrote:

Depending on the options set in vi, it can do horrible things to
indentation when you paste things in

:-) seen that! Therefore modern vims have :set paste<enter
and as long as you not 'set nopaste' *no* munging of pastes will be
done! I'm needing/using that all the time, I might even put it
into my '.vimrc' and make it default ...

I just looked at your original posting (using Outlook) and line 3 is
not indented, but rather continuous from line 2, and the other
indents
are in columns 5 and 9 (not 4 and 8). I shall try viewing it with
other
mail clients, just for kicks.

'outlook' is a <insert favorite expletive here> for programmers.
By Default it *reformats* everything to 'Paragraphs' of the form:
- everything NOT split by an empty line is 'supposed to be a useless
linebreak for mailtransfer', then it collects all those lines and
reformats the resulting words with single whitespaces to window-size.
- an empty line means 'paragraph end', so itself may vanish anyway
only the linebreak in a paragraph stays.

It's like Microsoft(office)Word's view of Text and you are supposed
to write html or rtf anyway :-)

If hints(warnings, whatever) are on, you'll see a line above your
munged mail, saying it removed useless newlines, and by clicking
it you can get them back.

Stucki

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food. Without petroleum we will not be able to feed the global
population. -- Robert L. Hickerson ::::
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