On 3/2/25 12:27, Marc Haber wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 01:39:11AM +0800, Blair Noctis wrote:
I installed mutt and tried to reply to that email,
and mutt showed me the Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 source.
I'm not sure if that's what you saw.
If you saw the decoded text,
I copied it into vim and vim seems to wrap it just fine.
Thankfully you usually don't copy the message into vim, but you hit
R)eply, L)ist Reply or reply A)ll and mutt fires up the Editor for you.
Would you kindly show me how it looked on your side?
In the Editor, the long lines show up as long lines, with the
disadvantage that you either quote them not at all, or completely, or
have to go through intra-line editing to just leave what you want to
quote, and if it's a really long line vim will not show it at all
instead of partially.
That is surely something that one could adapt to, but I'd hate having to.
Notes and Outlook have done incredible damage to E-Mail culture,
introducing Top-Posting as the widely accepted (but totally inferior)
way to have discussions in e-mail. Please let us consider using a method
that doesn't make discussions harder.
The biggest problem with Outlook is that getting it to use plain text in
any sane way is a lot of work. It really messes up quoting.
So if you're conversing with someone who uses Outlook but hasn't
reconfigured it top posting or changing text colors for HTML mail is the
only "sane" way to tell who wrote what.
With how pervasive it is in the corporate world; it's going to be an
uphill battle to change.
The "New Outlook" with Microsoft 365 is even worse. I can't find a way
to even *configure it* to do plain text and quoting sanely.
FWIW; I think that Thunderbird mostly gets things right when you send
plain text email. In the composing window you'll see where it does the
wrapping for you at ~72-75 characters.
It defaults F=f, and when I looked at the source of what it was viewing,
it was sent with the breaks on 72 for my test emails. When you open an
email the width automatically goes to match the width of your window.
Seems like the best of both worlds to me.
