[VM] linebreaks

[Salome Södergran]

Hi

One more problem I run into right now:

When sending a message, lines that are not separated by a blank line are
considered to be one paragraph and the filling is done accordingly. Up
to now no filling was done across lines separated by hard newlines
(hitting RETURN/ENTER).

I am still using the same .vm-file. The only difference concerning VM,
as far as I know, is that I have now version 8.2.0b and had 8.2.0a
before. But I do not think that this is crucial, as I have the same
problem in gnus (posting to a newsgroup), too.

I tried auto-fill-mode (I have global-visual-line-mode on by default),
use-hard-newlines and other things without success. Does anybody have a
helpful suggestion how I could get back the old behaviour?

Salome

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Salome Södergran
When sending a message, lines that are not separated by a blank line are
considered to be one paragraph and the filling is done accordingly. Up
to now no filling was done across lines separated by hard newlines
(hitting RETURN/ENTER).

I don't recommend that you use any automatic filling for your mail
composition buffers, i.e., no visual-line-mode and no longlines-mode. If
you use them, then they will show you a nicely formatted window, but the
long lines will be there in the text of your message. Sendmail will then
get long lines in your message and it will do whatever it can to do in order
to make it fit the standards of mail protocols.

If you just do your own filling, you will be perfectly fine.

Cheers,
Uday

[Salome Södergran]

Post by Uday Reddy

Post by Salome Södergran
When sending a message, lines that are not separated by a blank line are
considered to be one paragraph and the filling is done accordingly. Up
to now no filling was done across lines separated by hard newlines
(hitting RETURN/ENTER).

I don't recommend that you use any automatic filling for your mail
composition buffers, i.e., no visual-line-mode and no longlines-mode. If
you use them, then they will show you a nicely formatted window, but the
long lines will be there in the text of your message. Sendmail will then
get long lines in your message and it will do whatever it can to do in order
to make it fit the standards of mail protocols.
If you just do your own filling, you will be perfectly fine.

Thanks! Without the filling everything works fine now.

Best, Salome