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How do people configure Thunderbird or Icedove to show the current column number in the statusbar when writing draft e-mails? I can not see this option in the 'Preferences -> Composition' Menu.
Meanwhile I'm using kate as editor, pasting my user content to the composing window when I finish it.
174140
Posted 2015-01-26T11:41:27.640
Reputation: 859
I use Thunderbird and the "current column number in the statusbar" isn't ringing a bell. Can you clarify what you're referring to? Also, curious why you compose in Kate? – fixer1234 – 2015-01-26T20:54:56.820
I (actually not always) compose using Kate precisely to have user control of the current column. Actually Kate shows this number in kind of a status bar. Do you know whether similar functionality is available in Thunderbird? An add-ons lookup didn't throw anything interesting. I saw nothing related in 'Preferences'. – 174140 – 2015-01-27T08:20:20.217
1By column, do you mean the current character position on the line? I normally use proportional fonts and people view messages on different kinds of screens and different sized viewing windows (where lines wrap differently, anyway), so I never thought about it. Plus some people view in plain text and some in HTML so unless you compose in plain text, it can look different. You're right, I didn't find an option for that. If I needed something similar, what would have occurred to me would be a pop-up screen ruler (couldn't find a Thunderbird add-on for that, either). – fixer1234 – 2015-01-27T13:33:59.607