On 2019-06-25 19:46:39 +0200, Moritz Barsnick wrote: > I agree. OTOH, I have received messages with large one-liner HTML > attachments which obviously seemed small. Or people write plain text > paragraphs without breaking lines ...
I've noticed that too. > %c is what shows the size of the message in the index. Note that the %c value also depends on the encoding, but this may be less surprising. > The advantage with %l is that its number of digits is log10, so by > the number of digits, you can quickly glimpse the magnitude of the > size. While it's nice that %c automatically reduces to k/M, it's > hard to see the difference between 1.3k and 1.3M at a quick glimpse > across the index. Yes, perhaps the reason I do not use %c. And the fact that the scaling facteur is on the right instead of the left makes this even harder (that's a bit like the American dates MMDDYYYY). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
