On 2024-06-26 at 05:23:12 UTC-0400 (Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:23:12 +0200)
Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Yes, but that is the behavior I do not want. I want mm to auto wrap
when typing. This is useful when replying to patches we’re auto
formatting might be messing stuff up.
MM (and anything that supports format=flowed properly) respects explicit
line breaks and does not re-wrap text with fixed line breaks such as
code patches when composing replies. It also will NOT "auto-wrap" by
forcibly inserting line breaks to enforce a maximum line length, as
that would harm intentional formatting for text such as code.
Note that some MUAs do not respect explicit line breaks and may delete
them to reflow text, notably MS Outlook. Some MUAs also do not
understand how to present "format=flowed" plaintext, leaving sections
that should be soft-wrapped by the MUA to run right off the edge of a
window.
So it’s more an editor/composer feature what I need.
Can you provide a concrete example of MM doing something wrong and
explaining what you want it to do instead? I ask this because I suspect
that the problem is fundamentally an interoperability problem based in
other clients mishandling display of format=flowed and mangling quoted
text sections in replies. I have found that no form of adaptation is
possible to make all of Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and MM handle "plain
text" interoperably for conversations about code.
One possible workaround for you, if Benny doesn't feel like adding a
'hard wrap' option, is to use one of the editors that is supported by
the Bundle mechanism and exposed in the Commands menu. The available
bundles can be seen in the Preferences.
//Eelco
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Op 25 jun 2024 om 16:49 heeft Randall Gellens
<[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
On 25 Jun 2024, at 6:17, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
Hi,
Is there a configuration option to auto-wrap lines (to let’s say
79 chars) when sending plain text emails?
Cheers,
Eelco
Plain text mail should be created adhering to format=flowed (RFC
3676), which allows each displaying client to wrap lines for the
window size (reflowing as the window size changes).
Format=flowed sends each paragraph with lines no longer than 80
characters, but because of the format=flowed marking on the MIME
type, each displaying client knows it can remove the CRLF within a
paragraph and reflow as appropriate. Lines that are fixed width are
marked so displaying clients know not to reflow them. It also marks
quote levels.
--Randall
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