Stephen Isard wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote:
 |> Stephen Isard wrote in
 |> <[email protected]>:
 |>|On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| \
 |>|wrote:
 |>|> Stephen Isard wrote in
 |>|> <[email protected]>:
 |>|>|I have recently discovered the quote-fold variable, which is _almost_
 |>|>|just what I need.  Is there any way to stop it putting '\' at the line
 |>|>|breaks that are inserted?  I can see how you might sometimes want
 |>|>|that, but most often I don't.  (Yes, I know that I can pipe through
 |>|>|sed 's/\\$//', but it's an extra step.)
 |>|>
 |>|> Unfortunately not.
 |>|> I will change it and add an optional fourth argument, and if any
 |>|> of the arguments is .. say, hyphen-minus -, then no such thing is
 |>|> written.  Does this sound sound?
 |>|
 |>|Thanks for the quick response, Steffen.  Yes, that sounds as if it would
 |>|do what I want.
 |>
 |> I did it a tad differently:
 |>
 |>     If the first character is not a digit it is used as the line-
 |>     break indicator (by default reverse solidus ‘\’); if it is hy‐
 |>     phen-minus ‘-’ no symbol is produced.  Thereafter one, two or
 |>     three (space separated) numeric values are expected
 |
 |Great.  Thank you very much!

weeeeellll, hmhm, 

  $ mailx -Rf -Smta=test -Snosave -Squote-fold='-79'
  #?0!0/NONE#|:+[/home/steffen/sec.arena/mail/]mbox? r24
  mailx[21449]: [emerg] Datatype overflow: SU memory bag: auto allocation 
request
  Aborted

i will change it to say "if the last character is not a digit",
you know, then we are backward-compatible.
I hope this is also ok :)

o/

--steffen
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