Re: [Mutt] #2917: format/flowed messages are not properly filled
#2917: format/flowed messages are not properly filled
Comment (by pdmef):
Replying to [comment:7 John Hawkinson]:
> Rocco Rutte <fleas@xxxxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 21 Jun 2007
> > By default, if you don't set $wrap, the limit is 77.
>
> Whoa. That's weird. Can we update the docs? They say the default
> is "0" and they don't say what that means, but the implication is
> that the its the same as a negative value of zero:
I didn't mean the value for $wrap but an internal limit being used
in case $wrap=0. The old handler for format=flowed didn't flow lines
and so $wrap defaults to 0 and the new f=f handler will flow the lines
up to the internal limit (just for clarification that the limit makes
sense, there's no other way except a new variable whether to generally
flow format=flowed mails to what width that I know of now...)
> > What if you were viewing the message on a device with less than
> > 80 columns?
>
> Then you as the receiver have a special problem and will need to take
> special action.. But that vast majority of people have >=80 cols
> and their viewing shouldn't be broken.
Just that one has more than 80 characters doesn't mean he's willing to
use it for text.
> Kyle Wheeler responded to mutt-dev (found in the archive) and
> it didn't make it into trac, but I wanted to note that
> RFC2646 is obsoleted by RFC3676 (I don't think anything
> of relevance changes).
The new f=f handler is supposed to support RfC3676 except for this
bug maybe... :)
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2917#comment:8>