Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Tony Godshall [mutt-users] <17/07/01 15:14 -0700>: > > > Par is much better, of course ... > > > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ > > apt-get --simulate install par > apt-get install par cd /usr/ports/textproc/par make install clean HTH HAND --suresh -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + W

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Tony Godshall
> > Par is much better, of course ... > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ apt-get --simulate install par apt-get install par

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Contagious Specialist
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ Oh! The wasted reformatting keystrokes! However have I survived this long without it? --

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread David Champion
On 2001.07.17, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Biju Chacko [mutt-users] <17/07/01 12:56 +0530>: > > If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. > > Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reaso

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko [mutt-users] <17/07/01 12:56 +0530>: > If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reasonably expect to find on most unix systems. Par is much better, of course ... -suresh -- Suresh

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:20:15AM -0700, Chris Fuchs wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > > Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning curve. > > > >Are you already using vim? No reason to start, just to get word wrap. > >par (under vi) handles this

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Alexander Skwar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm curious, what's the MUA? > > Mail > User > Agent > -> mutt in this case I think he means what's the one that's mangling the quotes... -Justin -- [ ] -- Justin R. Miller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [ ] [ ] -- see full headers for PGP key infor

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Sam Roberts« am 2001-07-16 um 13:06:37 -0400 : > Quoting Chris Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote: > > I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond > > 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, > > I'm curious, what's the MUA? Mail User

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2001.07.16, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Chris Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Then, when you'd like to reformat text, highlight it in visual mode and > > >hit 'gq' and it should wrap nicely.

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
>On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning curve. > >Are you already using vim? No reason to start, just to get word wrap. >par (under vi) handles this, and I'd be shocked -- shocked, I tell you >-- if emacs does not. Sho

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread David Champion
On 2001.07.16, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Then, when you'd like to reformat text, highlight it in visual mode and > >hit 'gq' and it should wrap nicely. That's what I do, anyway... > > > > Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning cu

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
>On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:15PM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: >Thus spake Chris Fuchs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Does anyone else get mail thus mutilated and how do you handle it? > >Use this in your .muttrc: > > set editor="vim -c 'set tw=72 comments=nb:>'" > >Then, when you'd like to

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Chris Fuchs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone else get mail thus mutilated and how do you handle it? Use this in your .muttrc: set editor="vim -c 'set tw=72 comments=nb:>'" Then, when you'd like to reformat text, highlight it in visual mode and hit 'gq' and it should wrap

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Sam Roberts wrote: >Quoting Chris Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote: >> I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond >> 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, > >I'm curious, what's the MUA? MS Exchange

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Roberts
Quoting Chris Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote: > I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond > 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, I'm curious, what's the MUA? Sam -- Sam Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
Hello, I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, but for quoted lines you get something like this: > extreme silliness that should not be dealt this way but is for whatever reason. > On t