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It's not a bug, it's a feature!
(programming.dev)
I've noticed a small issue with my email client for quite some time now where composing a new email will have several blank lines by default.
It's not too much of an issue to simply delete them but hey, maybe no one had pointed this out before! So I filed a bug report only to get this response... basically it's not a bug, its a feature!
For context, this is the "feature":
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This reminds me of text editor that leave half a screen of ‘wiggle room’ when scrolling down. Absolutely hate it, and if I can’t turn it off, I won’t use the text editor.
Do you mean at the end? I can't live without it, I feel kinda claustrophobic if I can't scroll below the actual text.
That's actually an accessibility feature intended to keep the eye level roughly at the same position; the person saying "I hate it when editors do it" is really not understanding why this is a feature and not a bug.
That's not fair. They're complaining that they don't like it, and that they want to be able to turn it off. They didn't say it shouldn't exist
Exactly!
In this case, if this is truly a feature and there are people with actual use cases for it (please let me know!) then make it an option, and not a default one.
I mean, I don't like it, and I'm kinda fine with it being the default if most of the people want it. I just think we should be able to turn it off.
No, I get that it's not a bug. I just don't like it, personally, and want to be able to turn it off. Don't know where read that I thought it was a bug.
One man's bug is another man's feature.
literally unusable
but if they ever change it, it'll break a number of fortune 500 companies who rely on this behaviour 🤣
Not the end of the world if they trim messages before sending them?
It means you can click a line and type there, no need to press enter a few times first.
Not email, but if I'm taking notes in a text editor I will hold down enter at the start to ensure I can just click and type anywhere.
Now, if that pointless whitespace is being sent, I can imagine it annoying people in long email chains.
I'm not sure why you would need to start an email from halfway down the page? I'm not sure I'm understanding you but I feel like I'm on the verge of having my mind blown about how the other half write emails 🤣 Please explain further, I'm genuinely curious!
For me, I write things from top to bottom. If I want to do a later paragraph then I will simply write it in, then go back to the top and hit enter to create a new line
Mostly top to bottom. But sometimes I write the body of the email, then add all the plesentarys after.
Or even write the email, then work out who it's 'to' on the huge cc list...