Gmail – Sending commands over Gmail

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Sometimes I send (and receive) long command lines to colleagues over Gmail. When the command spans many lines Gmail adds newline character making me unable to copy the command directly to the terminal.

Is there a good solution to this problem?

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You can use a Pastebin or jsfiddle.

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Answering my own question, it turned out the problem was during switching from rich formatting to plain text:

if previously I used plain text, Gmail will break long lines properly
if previously I used rich formatting, Gmail will quote Outlook style, and when I press 'plain text', Gmail will reformat the reply to plain text, but long lines are not broken

So the solution if previously I chose rich formatting is:

reply
click 'plain text'
discard
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Gmail – How to forward the Gmail to the Facebook email address

I would consider retrying. It could be that you are not using the correct email address.

I received the following after trying

phwd@gmail.com may now forward mail to phwd@facebook.com.

As well as a notice at the top after enabling forwarding

You are forwarding your email to phwd@facebook.com. This notice will end in 7 days.Review Settings Learn more

Also most of the mail will show up in your other folder so you will have to use "Action > Move to Messages" to train the filter so you can get notifications, for example on your mobile device instead of push mail.

I will let forwarding run for a few days and give updates if anything changes.

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