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From: Marc Paquette <marcpa@CAM.ORG>
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To: "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com>
cc: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.0 announcement
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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, William M. Perry wrote:

> Kyle Jones writes:
> >Steven L. Baur writes:
> > > Marc Paquette writes:
> > > > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (WinNT; I)
> > > > [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> > > > [2  <text/html; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> > > 
> > > :-(
> >
>   The problem here is that there were a bunch of <br>'s in there.  This
> would be caused by someone manually specifying a line break instead of
> letting auto-fill happen.  I think this is 'shift-return' in netscape, but
> am not sure.  If communicator is doing this <br> insertion by itself
> instead of letting the receiving agent do it, then someone should walk over
> there and soundly whack everyone at the company.
> 
> -Bill P.
> 
> 

It wasn't my intention to compose that mail in HTML, but since it
triggered some VM bugs, I'm happy I (accidently) did it.

Here is what I did from inside Netscape Communicator:

I replied to Steve's message, pressed the Quote button to include original
text, it inserted the text with '> ' at the beginning of lines (it seemed
properly filled), I removed some lines, I copied some others, changed the
attribution marker '> ' for '+ ', added the string "20.0" and the
parenthesis around "MUlti ...", Mozilla auto-wrapped the end of last line,
which fucked up the "+ " attribution, I manually fixed up things by
pressing Return at the point where I wanted a line break.

I've never entered Shift-Return, but maybe that Return is equivalent in
this situation.

Maybe I shouldn't have changed "> " to "+ " ?
Maybe it was because I copy&pasted some quoted text ?
Maybe it was because I hit Return instead of letting auto-fill do its work
(but it did it incorrectly) ?

Marc Paquette
marcpa@cam.org

