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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!

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[-] stifle867@programming.dev 75 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For context, this is the "feature":

[-] Trarmp@feddit.nl 17 points 10 months ago

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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.

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Gryzor@lemmyfly.org 42 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 37 points 10 months ago

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

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Trarmp@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Trarmp@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

the person saying “I hate it when editors do it” is really not understanding why this is a feature and not a bug.

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.

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