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Re: stuff_all_quoted



On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:43:24PM -0700, William Yardley wrote:
> so to put it differently, does anyone have any reason why Gary Johnson's
> "stuff_all_quoted" patch should *not* be included (and, possibly even
> made the default)?

I don't, but I do think the name of the variable is awful.  It doesn't
seem to convey any idea of what it does, and sounds kind of, er,
juvenile.  As in, "I got stuff all quoted," or something of the sort.
Maybe we can call it all_your_quoted_stuff_are_belong_to_us? ;-)

[FWIW, I do get that "stuff" is being used as a verb here, not a noun.
But that's not how it read to me when I was reading this.]

In all seriousness, I'd like to suggest pad_flowed_quotes as a more
intuitive natural English name for the variable.

I also totally agree that this behavior is much more aesthetic and
desireable than the >Foo form of quoting flowed text, and support the
idea of making it the default.

> Since almost all editors used by mutt users do *not* support generation
> of flowed text, I think it makes sense to (by default) display and quote
> flowed messages in a way that is consistent with other messages received
> by mutt.

Agreed.  I'm a big fan of consistency, as you may have noticed..

> (side note - I did notice that ">From" (lines with a gt escaped From at
> the beginning of a line) get stuffed this way too, which prehaps they
> shouldn't - in fact - why can't mutt just display such lines as "From"
> when viewing them?)

I agree with this too, though I do see an argument against it.  Mutt
has no way to know whether the '>' was added by the mailer or by the
user, so it should (arguably) leave it alone.  Though, personally I
think it makes more sense to assume that "^>From" was quoted by the
mailer, and not by the user, and strip the '>' on display.  Worthy of
a bug report, I think...


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