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Authored by Rob Landley
Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/email-clients.txt: update Thunderbird docs with wordwrap plugin 

Show how to install the "toggle wordwrap" extension in thunderbird.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Documentation/email-clients.txt
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186 186 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
187 187 Thunderbird (GUI)
188 188  
189   -By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
190   -coerce it into being nice.
  189 +Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are ways
  190 +to coerce it into behaving.
191 191  
192   -- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
193   - messages in HTML format".
194   -
195   -- Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines:
196   - user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
197   -
198   -- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed:
199   - user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
200   -
201   -- You need to get Thunderbird into preformat mode:
202   -. If you compose HTML messages by default, it's not too hard. Just select
203   - "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject line.
204   -. If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new
205   - message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to
206   - text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write
207   - icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from
208   - the drop-down box just under the subject line.
209   -
210 192 - Allows use of an external editor:
211 193 The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an
212 194 "external editor" extension and then just use your favorite $EDITOR
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214 196 and install the extension, then add a button for it using
215 197 View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the
216 198 Compose dialog.
  199 +
  200 +To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
  201 +
  202 +- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
  203 + messages in HTML format".
  204 +
  205 +- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.
  206 + Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the
  207 + thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to
  208 + "false".
  209 +
  210 +- Enable "preformat" mode: Shft-click on the Write icon to bring up the HTML
  211 + composer, select "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject
  212 + line, then close the message without saving. (This setting also applies to
  213 + the text composer, but the only control for it is in the HTML composer.)
  214 +
  215 +- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from:
  216 + https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/
  217 + Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen,
  218 + and browse to where you saved the .xul file. This adds an "Enable
  219 + Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer.
217 220  
218 221 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
219 222 TkRat (GUI)