Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 05Sep2022 01:52, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 08:36:54AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: But not space-stuffing, right? Aye. I avoid lines commencing with a ">" just because they look quoted to my eye anyway, so that aside "live" space stuffing in authoring is something I'd

Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-09-05 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 07:40:54PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: It seems a little conceptually cleaner to have the editor do the whole job, rather than divide it between the editor and Mutt. But another complication is that you can edit a message more than once... I think space stuffing is e

Problems sending mail

2022-09-05 Thread David Bryant
Hi. I'm new to this group. I'm looking for some help. I recently built a Linux from Scratch system. I don't have any kind of graphical interface set up there yet. I would like to use mutt to send and receive email using a tty terminal. Mainyly for educational purposes. I'm composing this messag

Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 05Sep2022 12:56, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 07:40:54PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: It seems a little conceptually cleaner to have the editor do the whole job, rather than divide it between the editor and Mutt. But another complication is that you can edit a message mor

Re: Handling multiple From addresses

2022-09-05 Thread Ofer Inbar
What I did for this was select a few esc-capital hotkey combos and define macros like this in my muttrc: macro generic \eF ":source ~/.mutt/headers.f...\r" macro generic \eH ":source ~/.mutt/headers.h...\r" And so on. (I replaced the actual filenames with "...") Each .mutt/headers... file looks

Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-09-05 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 08:54:58AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm not sure we're disagreeing here, except for the conceptual separation of the space-stuffing step. I agree that it's a separate step, or layer. I just think it might better be done within the editor -- or special-purpose prog

Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-09-05 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
Here's an updated version of my Emacs mode for Mutt flowed text, with tweaks: displays quoted text in a different color, handles signature separator lines correctly, has a little more documentation. (defvar mutt-flowed-text-mode-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) (set-keymap-parent map t

Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-09-05 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 10:53:15PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: Here's an updated version of my Emacs mode for Mutt flowed text... Here's a picture of it in use, with long lines being word-wrapped by Emacs's visual-line-mode.