[texworks] (no subject)

Stefan Löffler st.loeffler at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 09:51:17 CET 2011


Hi,

On 2011-11-07 03:08, Paul A Norman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it a feature or bug that 0.5 943 
>
>     Menu> Help/ Email to maling list
>
> no longer includes in an email, a subject line, nor incorporates in
> the body the version and Os information?

No subject line is a feature - because we got many messages where people
didn't bother to alter the predefined subject line (why should they,
anyway), which makes it impossible to see at a glance what a message is
about (and consequently makes it tedious to find a message again later).
Therefore, the subject line was removed (if people still don't enter a
meaningful subject, the situation is the same, but if they do, it is
greatly improved).

But email and OS information should still be present, so that is a bug.
In fact, we even added some instructions what to specify and how to do
it (e.g., to add a subject line ;)).

There was a minor problem in the code that apparently was handled
gracefully on my Linux machine. That was corrected in r944 - could you
please test if this solved the issue on Windows?

Cheers,
Stefan


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