[Macpartners] Does paste from terminal into a Mail.app compose window format line breaks for you?

[William Cattey]

Today I was sending around a draft of an announcement I'd composed in  
Emacs.
(GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.5.1))  (I used emacs for  
additional editing features, and version control if anybody  
cares.  :-)  )

Like last week's draft, I copied the text out of Emacs into my  
Mail.app compose
window.

Unlike last week, the line breaks I'd carefully set were NOT pasted  
in.  So that:

	Hello,

	-------------------------
	NEW FEATURES
	-------------------------

	    * Support for RHEL 5

looked like:

	Hello,
	-------------------------NEW FEATURES-------------------------
	    * Support for RHEL 5

Thinking, "It must be Emacs", I viewed the file in Terminal, and  
pasted from there.
Same thing.

I created a new account on the same machine presuming some preference  
might have gotten corrupted.  Same thing.

Interestingly, if I set "Rich Text" in the Mail.app compose window,  
the line breaks are properly pasted in.  But if I then change the  
formatting back to "Plain Text", anything I pasted in previously that  
had proper line breaks gets reformatted to trash the line breaks!

This seems to have started happening JUST after I took the Safari 3.1  
update to my Intel 10.4.11 iMac.

Has anyone else seen this?

Has anyone a suggestion how to get Mail.app to go back to putting  
plain text line breaks in when one pastes in from plain text?

-Bill

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William Cattey
Linux Platform Coordinator
MIT Information Services & Technology

N42-040M, 617-253-0140, wdc at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/