On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> I would also love to see a better fix for quoting flowed text
> when replying using *non* flowed text.  Bugs #3309, #3001 have
> a better description. FreeBSD's patch (patch-1.5.XX.vvv.quote)
> http://download.openpkg.org/components/cache/mutt/patch-1.5.24.vvv.quote.gz
> works well enough for me.

I have been trying to read up on format=flowed and the patches you
referenced, but frankly both the above patch and the revised gentoo
version at:
http://sourceforge.net/p/gentoomuttpatches/code/ci/default/tree/07-quote.patch
make no sense to me.

Below, the first column indicates the "original" content of an email.
The second column is the output when replying using the FreeBSD patch,
and the third column is output when replying using the Gentoo patch.
(with unset text_flowed; set quote_quoted)

    Original     FreeBSD Patch    Gentoo Patch
    ========     =============    ============

    > > > foo    > > >> foo       > > > > foo

    >>>foo       >>>>foo          >>>>>>foo

    > > foo      > >> foo         > > > foo

    >>foo        >>>foo           >>>>foo

    > foo        >> foo           >> foo

    >foo         >>foo            >>foo

    foo          > foo            > foo

Even if this made any sense, both patches override reflow_text when
replying, and the FreeBSD patch uses a fixed buffer size, making them
unsuitable for just applying.

I'm baffled that these patches are helping you, or why anyone would want
to turn them on.  I can only guess that I have missed something.

That said, I think I understand your complaint when replying to a
format=flowed email with "unset text_flowed; set reflow_text".  This
generates strange output, since it just prepends $indent_string.  What
exactly are you looking for in a "solution"?

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