[Alpine-info] Spaces in address fields

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Matt Ackeret wrote:

>

> :) On Wed, 28 May 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

> :) > I'm not entirely sure what this is designed to prevent, but in

> :) > address fields, you can't insert a space if the cursor is over a

> :) > space. I prefer to (almost-) always have my name appear as Benjamin

> :) > R. Haskell in outgoing emails, so when responding to emails where

> :) > someone's addressed it to Ben Haskell, I can't do this:

> :)

> :) While this problem is interesting and sounds like a bug,

>

> It is not a bug, but an intentional behavior. You can not insert two 

> consecutive spaces in the following headers: From, Reply-To, To, Cc, 

> Bcc, Fcc, Lcc, and Attchmnt. This behavior comes from Pine, but I do not 

> know why this restriction exists,


I might argue that an intentional behavior with no clear rationale (still 
waiting) and negative effects (unintuitive text entry) is a bug.



> one can always get around that restriction, as I did in this message.


I wondered what you meant by that (and I'm curious as to how you did it), 
because without full headers shown, your From: header appears as it 
usually does (The five/six spaces were conflated into one in Message 
View.). That's exactly the behavior I'd prefer for the recent discussion 
about folding whitespace, and tabs in headers.

i.e. Your header:
"From: Eduardo      Chappa <address>"
showed up as:

"Eduardo Chappa <address>"

and my preference would be that "Subject: This    is    a    spacy    subject" 
would show up as "Subject: This is a spacy subject"

Best,
Ben