XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.thunderbird   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   Oliver wrote on 12/2/24 5:05 am:   
   > Thunderbird drives me nuts with its inability to set a line length.   
   > (I turned off the HTML long ago which was incapable of correct line   
   > feeds).   
   >   
   > gVim can set line length, but I can't figure out how yet as this   
   > should work but it doesn't "do anything" unless you're typing already   
   > on the line. :set textwidth=80   
   >   
   > The good news is this doesn't truncate words when it works but it   
   > doesn't really work because you have to be _editing_ the line to   
   > work.   
   >   
   > What I do now every time I send a message that has to look nice from   
   >  Thunderbird is write it up in Thunderbird first. Then I cut it out   
   > of the Thunderbird message (which usually has quoted context that I   
   > leave alone).   
   >   
   > Then I paste that new content into Windows gVim. And then I manually   
   > adjust each line's line length to look good.   
   >   
   > Then I paste it back into the brain dead Thunderbird. Then it looks   
   > the way I want (which is simply 80 character line lengths).   
   >   
   > Obviously this sucks. There must be a better way (and no, HTML styles   
   > is NOT that better way).   
   >   
   > In Linux you can use the ":!fmt" command to format to 80 characters.   
   > It too will truncate at a space (and not in the middle of a word).   
   >   
   > But Windows doesn't have the capability (as far as I know), unless,   
   > of course, I go back 30 years to install CYGWIN or the like (which is   
   > crazy).   
   >   
   > I can also use WSL if I install it but really all I'm asking for is   
   > one of two basic switches, one in Thunderbird which almost certainly   
   > doesn't exist, the other in gVim which probably exists - but I don't   
   > know how to use it.   
   >   
   > Is there a setting to make Thunderbird line lengths 80 characters? Is   
   > there a way to essentially !fmt Windows gVim to 80 characters?   
      
   Oliver, I use SeaMonkey Suite, which is based (a long time ago) on   
   Mozilla Suite which is were both Firefox and Thunderbird branched from   
   (a long time ago) .....   
      
   However on my SeaMonkey Suite, if I wanted to change the line length,   
   I'd go to Edit -> Preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups -> Composition ....   
   and, on that page, I can set the 'Wrap plain text messages at XXX   
   characters'   
      
   I think (but don't quote me) in Thunderbird the Preferences screen   
   appears on the 'Options' drop-down menu.   
   --   
   Daniel   
      
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