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Re: Backspace weirdness

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On 2026/7/6 19:44:41, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 7/5/26 12:33, Andy Burns wrote:
>> J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>
>>> When I started using TB again after decades, I came in at about 138, and
>>> found quite a lot of weird behaviours at end of lines (and between the
>>> body and the .sig separator line); they mostly cleared up in the next
>>> few versions (I'm currently on 140.11.1esr), though not all (it still
>>> gets confused between quoted [blue] text and new [black], and sometimes
>>> insertstwo newlines when I press resturn, but I'm used to that now) -
>>> it's still a lot better than only a few versions ago.
>>
>> I think v115 (The supernova GUI rewrite) introduced several of the
>> oddities, I still occasionally have to tidy up whitespace where I've
>> interspersed my reply inside quoted text lines (and I sometimes cock
>> that up and get stray chevrons).
> 
> Stuff is supposed to improve with time and effort, not degrade.  The 
> Mozilla stuff doesn't seem to follow that rule.  I'm sure I can find an 
> improvement if I think about it long enough, but the degradations are 
> obvious.
> 
> Stuff is faster now, of course, but that may just be due to connection 
> speed -- for which mozilla can't take credit.
> 
Well, for me, most (not all) of the bugs in the compose editor were
fixed between (about) 132 and 140.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I hope you dream a pig.

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Backspace weirdness The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-07-05 10:20 -0700
  Re: Backspace weirdness "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-07-05 20:24 +0100
    Re: Backspace weirdness Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-07-05 20:33 +0100
      Re: Backspace weirdness The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-07-06 11:44 -0700
        Re: Backspace weirdness "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-07-06 20:51 +0100
        Re: Backspace weirdness Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-07-06 20:57 +0100
          Re: Backspace weirdness Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-07-06 16:23 -0700

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