[MlMt] Search across lines in compose view

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 22 Nov 2018, at 5:47, Alex Abdo wrote:

> 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?

It's a standard window provided by Apple. You can use option+return to 
insert an “invisible” line-feed.

> 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>”.

Sounds like there might be a bug we should look into, but let's do that 
off list (Help ▸ Send Feedback). I'll need an example messages 
(drag'n'drop it into the message) and a series of steps to reproduce.

> 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?

I don't think you could be doing anything wrong, but maybe there's some 
issue with MailMate and the other email client used in the 
correspondence.

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Benny
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