On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:10:02AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > I honestly think that without better editor integration, and / or some > way of validating that the content is actually formatted properly (or > post-editing formatting within Mutt), that it's not a good idea for Mutt > to support flowed text. Even when people are using the right options in > vim and doing everything else right, it seems very fragile and prone to > generating invalid flowed emails.
I stopped using format=flowed because not much besides Mutt supports it, and particularly not GMail and Outlook. But when I did use it, I configured vim to use syntax highlighting to add an underline highlight to the trailing space at the end of a line that format=flowed uses to know that it's a line that should be flowed. It was subtle enough to not bother me when composing (since the sentence your composing has a "trailing space" before you start the next word), but blatent enough to see when I'm looking over the message before saving. In ~/.vim/after/syntax/mail.vim, I have: " color trailing spaces to easily see where format=flowed lines will wrap and " not wrap syntax match lineEndWrap / $/ hi WrapLines term=bold,underline cterm=bold,underline gui=bold,underline if &background == "dark" hi WrapLines ctermfg=White ctermbg=Black guifg=Black guibg=White else hi WrapLines ctermfg=Black ctermbg=White guifg=Black guibg=White endif hi def link lineEndWrap WrapLines -- Ed Blackman
