I'm an old geezer too. I even go so far as to think people who use computer mice just by virtue of that use are diminishing their potential productivity. In slint and I expect other distributions par and par2cmdline are both paragraph reformatters. Slint comes with par already installed by default. I need to read up on both since if I can find tools that work better than fmt and newfmt that will make some of my work easier.
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 01:30:12 > From: Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nmh-workers] Formatting HTML to Text: netrik. > > In message <E1hgeXd-0003He-PG@sleekit>, > Conrad Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > - replfilter depends on 'par', which users may not have installed, but > > Ummmm... I don't have that either. What is it and where do I get it? > > >Finally, I'd almost be inclined to have nmh-without-replfilter display a > >message about replfilter, for example maybe in whatnowproc, so after > >grinding your teeth about the undecoded base64 you at least see a > >message suggesting a remedy for this after exiting the editor. I > >realise though that accurate detection of circumstances where it would > >be helpful to display such a message might not easy, but it would save a > >certain amount of repetition. > > Seconded. > > Some folks... me included... need to be very explicitly knocked upside the > head in order to make sure that we get the message. > > Or maybe replfilter should just become part of the (shipped) default > configuration. > > Lord knows that well over than 50% of all emails I've received over the past > several years contain either base64 or HTML or both, so that would seem > to make some sense. > > > Regards, > rfg > > > P.S. Speaking as a relic of a now long bygone era (which I am), I really > do wish that all of this base64 and HTNMLized email stuff would get off my > lawn. (Yes, I'm an old geezer.) > > It all annoys me very much, because I know damn well that all of this stupid > HTML stuff... which makes all mails about a factor of ten bigger... isn't > actually carrying any useful additional information that could not have > been represented and expressed just as well with good old plain text. > > But I already lost this battle at least a decade or two ago. Sigh. Oh well. > We live and we adapt. > > > -- > nmh-workers > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers -- -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
