Re: [PATCH] to improve the rendering of format=flowed quoted text
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:06:46PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
> On Monday, December 29, 2003 at 10:12:30 PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > This behavior is controlled by a new boolean option,
> > 'stuff_all_quoted'. When unset (the default), mutt's behavior is the
> > same as without the patch.
> Is an option really necessary? I mean: Given the choice, would a
> significant amount of users choose the ugly unreadable old behaviour?
> It's a real question: I don't know the answer. I only know that me, as
> a user, I'd definitely choose permanently the new one and would just
> try to forget the dark ages.
My guess is that if someone were using an editor which supported flowed
text, stuffing the quoted lines would probably break flowed quoting.
Since mutt (at least in theory) can send messages with flowed text IF
you use an editor which supports it, it's probably good to have the
option.
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