#2917: format/flowed messages are not properly filled Comment (by pdmef):
Replying to [comment:5 Kyle Wheeler]: > On Thursday, June 21 at 03:01 PM, quoth Mutt: > > The point is that when you explicitly set wrap to something > > other than 0, you ask mutt to display text not wider than your > > limit. I'm afraid in these cases mutt will have to break all > > lines (all fixed-format mails, all fixed lines in flowed-format > > mails) in order to do what you configured it to. > > No, that's wrong. Fixed lines in flowed-format mails are > *specifically* fixed. Mutt can break them if they're too long, but > it's not allowed to rewrap them if they can be displayed as-is. Didn't I write that? The problem with this bug is not mutt incorrectly rewraps lines but that it could be more clever to break overly long lines. And yes, with $wrap=0 and the internal limit of 77 the text is too long. A quick look at the code is that mutt even uses 1 char less, though I don't know why off-hand. > Check out what it would look like if I hadn't: Okay, code and quotes are valid examples of why you want that. > The sender has chosen to explicitly decide what lines can and > cannot be flowed, and may have very good reasons for that. The > mailer should respect that information, and not disregard it just > because SOME parts of the message need can be reformatted. The problem is about breaking, not flowing. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2917#comment:9>
