On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 04:23:33AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 09:54:43PM -0500, Xu Wang wrote: > > Dear mutters, > > > > Do you line-break your emails? Do you use flowed text? I am curious > > what the most common and recommended workflow is. > > > > I think this article is high quality and I was doing the same as the > > author. I would like to look into options for changing my worklow: > > > > http://brianbuccola.com/line-breaks-in-mutt-and-vim/ > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Xu > > My mails from mutt are primarily to mailing lists. So no, I don't > use flowed text. But also, I don't set the line length to 80 > columns - that's far too much for lists with multiple levels of > quoting in replies - my vimrc says 68, but 70 is probably ok. > I have my .vilerc columns for mutt set to 70.
I also have a script that formats incoming mail with very long lines to 70 columns. -- Chris Green