Subj : smartphone for ui dif
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Dec 09 2025 01:20 pm

 Re: smartphone for ui dif
 By: Dumas Walker to ACCESSION on Tue Dec 09 2025 09:29 am

> If you have an external picked, and are set up to allow you to choose
> the lines to quote before the editor is invoked, the synchronet
> lines-to-quote chooser does not wrap the lines properly and, if the message
> is very long at all, the numbers you are shown on the screen do not
> actually correspond to the line numbers.  So, choosing what looks like 5-10
> will not quote the lines you think it will... in the case of your message,
> my choice of lines to quote left me with a couple of mostly blank ones.
>
> So probably not an issue that is affecting the newbs, and probably doesn't
> affect many others.  Just the few that might choose to allow for choosing
> lines to quote before firing up an external editor like nano.  ;)

Configuring that external editor (in SCFG) with "Word-wrap Quoted Text" set to "Yes, for terminal width" might fix that issue.
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