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  KMail splits long URL's acros lines Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-05-15 17:03 +0100
    Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2011-05-15 22:09 +0200
      Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-05-15 22:26 +0100
    Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2011-05-15 14:30 -0700
      Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-05-16 16:31 +0100
        Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2011-05-16 09:30 -0700
      Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines Q <theContinuum@the.new> - 2011-06-05 15:10 -0400
        Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2011-06-06 09:07 -0700
          Re: KMail splits long URL's acros lines Larry Blanchard <lblanch@fastmail.fm> - 2011-06-06 16:19 +0000

#368 — KMail splits long URL's acros lines

I've been coming across a problem pasting long URL's into a Kmail email.
They get split onto the 2nd line at a "-" character around the WordWrap
column.

I did find two relevant bug reports:

      https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163609
      http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-7215

but I see the KDE report was raised in 2008, so someone's feet have been
dragging...

The only workaround I've found is to temporarily increase the WordWrap
setting, but works only if I reduce the font size significantly.

Has anyone here found a better workaround?

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/\/\aurice
	(Retired in Surrey, UK)      Registered Linux User #487649
        Linux Mandriva 2010.2 32-bit PowerPack  (i686 kernel) 
        KDE 4.5.2   Virtualbox 4.0.6   Firefox 4.0   Kmail 1.13.5
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#369

On 15/05/11 18:03, Maurice Batey wrote:
> I've been coming across a problem pasting long URL's into a Kmail email.
> They get split onto the 2nd line at a "-" character around the WordWrap
> column.
>
> I did find two relevant bug reports:
>
>        https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163609
>        http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-7215
>
> but I see the KDE report was raised in 2008, so someone's feet have been
> dragging...
>
> The only workaround I've found is to temporarily increase the WordWrap
> setting, but works only if I reduce the font size significantly.
>
> Has anyone here found a better workaround?
>

I don't know about kmail, but mail clients I've tried will keep a URL 
intact if you enclose it in angle brackets < and >.

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#370

On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:09:51 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> mail clients I've tried will keep a URL 
> intact if you enclose it in angle brackets < and >.

  Most other mail clients apparently don't have the Kmail problem!

Even so, the <> solution doesn't fit too well with copy/pasting a URL.

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#371

Maurice Batey wrote:
> I've been coming across a problem pasting long URL's into a Kmail email.

> The only workaround I've found is to temporarily increase the WordWrap

It would be easier to toggle the wordwrap off (Options or alt-OW) than 
to increase it.

Or use a shortened previewable URL.


I just discovered that the default Mepis 11 has KMail but doesn't have 
KNode, so it has no default news agent.

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Mike Easter

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#372

On Sun, 15 May 2011 14:30:51 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

> It would be easier to toggle the wordwrap off (Options or alt-OW) than 
> to increase it.

 It should be, but that doesn't work - the URL still gets split!

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#373

Maurice Batey wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
> 
>> It would be easier to toggle the wordwrap off (Options or alt-OW) than 
>> to increase it.
> 
>  It should be, but that doesn't work - the URL still gets split!

I don't normally use KMail, I just looked at it in Mepis 11 live DVD/USB.

I don't like how KMail handles the wrap on/ wrap off business, so I 
would change my recommendation to using a previewable URL shortener or a 
better mail agent.

Tbird handles long URLs perfectly.


-- 
Mike Easter

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#422

Mike Easter wrote:

> Maurice Batey wrote:
>> I've been coming across a problem pasting long URL's into a Kmail
>> email.
> 
>> The only workaround I've found is to temporarily increase the
>> WordWrap
> 
> It would be easier to toggle the wordwrap off (Options or alt-OW) than
> to increase it.
> 
> Or use a shortened previewable URL.
> 
> 
> I just discovered that the default Mepis 11 has KMail but doesn't have
> KNode, so it has no default news agent.
> 
but it is easy to install ;)
-- 
Q

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#425

Q wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

>> I just discovered that the default Mepis 11 has KMail but doesn't have
>> KNode, so it has no default news agent.
>>
> but it is easy to install ;)

Indeed. But I was looking at a live DVD/USB at the time.

Everywhere I look I seem to find some evidence of the 'deprecation' of 
usenet nntp messaging. The world (in this case the Mepis developers who 
choose which software to exclude from default install) would like to 
think usenet/nntp-news has already gone away.

Goodness. You are replying to a message I posted over 3 weeks ago. I 
don't even keep its headers for the group's cache because it is so 
old/stale.

As a separate issue; Why do your headers contain a f/ups line which 
contains the same content as the newsgroups line?


-- 
Mike Easter

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#426

On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:07:33 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

> As a separate issue; Why do your headers contain a f/ups line which
> contains the same content as the newsgroups line?

Knode?

-- 
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

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