ken wrote: > So this has bugged me for probably forever. > > Putting aside the crappy MIME handling, one of my biggest > annoyances when doing repl on a message is that when lines are > long, they get wrapped poorly. Basically, right now if they exceed > the column width they are broken at that point. To me, this sucks. > > Fixing this requires some subtle surgery to mhl, which doesn't look > terrible. But it begs the question ... what's the right behavior? > Break at a space? If so, what should we do about the "next" line? > I confess to being a bit unsure. If we have format=flowed, yes, > the decision is easy (mhl doesn't know about that just yet, but it > could). But it seems right now that modern mail programs assume > that everybody is doing line wrapping and paragraph reflowing, and > I'm wondering if we should just get on board with that. > > (It goes without saying that this would be adjustable via a mhl > format setting).
if the quoted text itself contains quoted text with right-margin '>' (or other) characters, the problem gets even worse. my text editor has built-in commands to help deal with that, so i get by (i used it, above), but honestly, i think this sort of problem is best left to an external tool, which mhl could be configured to invoke. for instance, "par" purports to solve this pretty well already: http://www.nicemice.net/par . (i've never tried it, but i keep the link around in case i need to.) i'd prefer that mh not try and be (too much of) a text processor. paul > > --Ken > =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 33.1 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
