=== Lurk-Mode OFF === Duck and cover!
=== Lurk-Mode ON === On 2014/9/15 10:09 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.09.14 16:29, Will Yardley wrote: >> The problem, though, is that doing so in a tool like mutt where the >> editor is (by design) completely divorced from the MUA does make it a >> lot more difficult to properly generate flowed text. > > Nope, it works fine for me, without effort of any significance. The > "problem" of scrambling standard email quoting when reflowing arises > only when a poster uses an incompetent editor to compose a reply. When I > reply in-line to a post, and break a quoted paragraph before a sentence, > and the paragraph rump needs reflowing, then the ordinary gq} command > respects the quoting, just as insert automatically prepends "> " to the > new line. > > That's with Vim as Mutt's editor. Doubtless Emacs can do the same. > (And with gq} mapped to ^W, I just need to think "wrap", rather than > "gobbeldygook".) > > OK, I haven't tried Vim's continuously active "flowed text" mode, so > cannot report on how that handles quoting, but then I don't see the > point. > > Erik >
