Re: Gmail strangeness...

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The non-showing blank character would be at the end of a line on your 
screen?  Thunderbird does that; maybe its a new idea among e-mailers?

Also, the Enter key indicates the start of a new Paragraph.  So the 
composer should skip to a new line, and also capitalize the first letter.

I think all of this relates to word wrap?


Dan wrote:
> I understand that gmail does some stuff "under the covers" that really speed
> up response time, like "returning" to an Inbox from reading a message is
> almost instantaneous.  (compare with Yahoo -- S_L_O_W)
>
> Lately, I've noticed a few quirks when composing an email message.  (I use
> gmail's "rich formatting" option.)  Sometimes using the space bar doesn't
> register on-screen until a non-blank character is typed.  You might hit the
> space bar twice and the cursor still sits directly after the last typed
> character; it tends to throw you off a bit.
>
> At the end of a paragraph, I hit Enter twice to start a new paragraph; this
> leaves one blank line between the two paragraphs.  Within the past week I've
> noticed that an extra line feed will appear between paragraphs, and I have
> to manually delete the extra line feed.
>
> Of course, trying to replicate it now won't work.
>
> Anybody else noticed this?  This is on WinXP Pro, SP2 + all updates, Firefox
> v1.5.0.1, fairly current Java (FWIW).  System performance is otherwise very
> good.
>
>
> Thanks,  (huh, as soon as I typed the 'T' on Thanks, it jumped down another
> line, so there are now two blank lines before this paragraph.)
>
> - Dan