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<p dir="auto">On 2018-11-22 05:47:12 (+0100), Alex Abdo wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I’m wondering if there’s a way to search across lines in the compose view. Specifically, does the search interface have a way of searching for a newline (or carriage return?) character?</p>
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<p dir="auto">You can do the usual ⌘F to bring up the standard fruity search box. I don't now if you can search for things like newlines in there though. On cursory inspection, it seems not.</p>
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<p dir="auto">The reason I’m trying to do this is somewhat arcane. I’ve noticed that MailMate seems to increase the number of line breaks between paragraphs in forwarded or replied-to emails. When I’m inserting responses inline in those messages, the extra spacing can be kind of distracting, and so I was going to explore using a simple search-and-replace to reduce the number of extra line breaks between paragraphs. But that requires being able to search for consecutive line breaks—e.g., “>\n>”.</p>
<p dir="auto">Is that possible? Or, even better, is there a way of changing the underlying behavior of MailMate adding extra line breaks in forwarded or replied-to emails? Or maybe I’m doing something wrong that’s causing those extra line breaks to appear?</p>
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<p dir="auto">I would just use an external editor from a bundle. I use MacVim.</p>
<p dir="auto">As far as I can tell, MailMate leaves the buffer alone after the external editor gives it back.</p>
<p dir="auto">Philip</p>
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Philip Paeps<br>
Senior Reality Engineer<br>
Ministry of Information</p>
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