On 15Sep2015 19:27, Ian Zimmerman <i...@buug.org> wrote:
On 2015-09-16 08:12 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
The other side of the coin is that that spec _recommends_ folding at
<78 in the composition phase in order than a user whose mail reader
doesn't understand format=flowed can still see somewhat well laid out
text.
To take an example, I'm writing this message in format=flowed but
folding my lines at <78 (with trailing spaces to indicate reflowable
text). The display _should_ be nicely flowed to match the reader's
reflow settings. But if you pipe the raw message data through less
you should at least see text folded before 78 chars, which
accomodates simple message inspection or incompetent mail reader
software.
I'm afraid this backfires for me (mutt 1.5.21). What happens is that
if my wrap < your soft line length (e.g. assume wrap=72 on my side),
the pager breaks your lines _both_ at 72 _and_ at 78.
Can you cut/paste an example of what this means, since I don't think I
understand.
The result is
similar to what I always get reading plain text messages in Gmail: a
hard to read mess. If you just had 1 long line per paragraph
(terminated with a space), it would fold only at 78 and look fine.
Am I still missing something?
My treatment of the quoted material may be wrong (or very suboptimal); just
looking at this message all the quoted lines lack trailing spaces and I need to
investigate that. My vim setup for this is very crude.
Could you detail what happens to my message with both the quoted and actual
reply text please?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
