Re: [PATCH] to improve the rendering of format=flowed quoted text
On 2004-01-01, Will Yardley <william+mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
This patch shouldn't cause any problems for such editors since the
space-stuffing it introduces is allowed by the format=flowed RFC.
The RFC says that certain lines _must_ be space-stuffed but that
other lines _may_ be space-stuffed.
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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