On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:28:24AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > > I would also love to see a better fix for quoting flowed text when > > replying using *non* flowed text. > > Bugs #3309, #3001 have a better description. FreeBSD's patch > > (patch-1.5.XX.vvv.quote) > > http://download.openpkg.org/components/cache/mutt/patch-1.5.24.vvv.quote.gz > > works well enough for me. > > I have both of these on my list to review. I remember the original > vvv.quote patch had a fixed buffer size (see ticket #3718). I'll have > to take a look at the revised patch in Gentoo again.
The issue should be described in those tickets, but tldr; is that when replying to flowed messages when $text_flowed is *not* set (i.e., the usual case), the editor will have: > >>foo > >foo >bar instead of > >> foo > > foo > bar or even: > > > foo > > foo > bar So, the patch adds a leading space before the quoted text. I get that mutt doesn't like to monkey around too much with mail formatting, but the first example above makes for some really, really ugly quoting. Additionally, there were some additional requests related to the *viewing* of flowed mail within the pager... not sure whether that's now configurable without patches. I would argue that even if the raw message has: >foo you could render it differently in the internal pager (vs. the editor). w
