On 08Jan2016 23:34, Xu Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
Sometimes I observe that Ian quotes emails such as:
Michael> its own MTA. The one at Apptix is the obvious, but Apptix's
Michael> SMTP service is crypted and authenticated, and I haven't found
Michael> a way to make mutt log in as me.
Is this a setting in mutt or does he do that manually? What is the
name of that type of quoting?
You can't do it directly in mutt without some extra stuff; mutt has the
$indent_string variable you can set to replace the standard ">" with a string.
It is a format string, so you could embed %f and stuff in it. See the doco for
this setting, which in turn directs you to the $index_format doco for what you
can put in it.
I used to set it to "| " myself because I thought it looked better, but all
these weirdnesses make it hard for receiving programs to recognise quoted
material automatically, and I have abandoned the practice entirely.
My current practice is: leave this alone, and use format=flowed for my
messages. This actually _requires_ the standard quote indent, and lets me write
messages (like this one) which will reflow nicely to fit the reader's screen,
yet look ok in a purely dumb pager like less because it is physically folded
around 72 characters.
I'm a vim user, so if you also are I can assist in vim modes to aid
format=flowed composition. I highly recommend it!
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
