Re: [Mutt] #2917: format/flowed messages are not properly filled
#2917: format/flowed messages are not properly filled
Comment (by pdmef):
Replying to [comment:5 Kyle Wheeler]:
> On Thursday, June 21 at 03:01 PM, quoth Mutt:
> > The point is that when you explicitly set wrap to something
> > other than 0, you ask mutt to display text not wider than your
> > limit. I'm afraid in these cases mutt will have to break all
> > lines (all fixed-format mails, all fixed lines in flowed-format
> > mails) in order to do what you configured it to.
>
> No, that's wrong. Fixed lines in flowed-format mails are
> *specifically* fixed. Mutt can break them if they're too long, but
> it's not allowed to rewrap them if they can be displayed as-is.
Didn't I write that? The problem with this bug is not mutt incorrectly
rewraps lines but that it could be more clever to break overly long lines.
And yes, with $wrap=0 and the internal limit of 77 the text is too long.
A quick look at the code is that mutt even uses 1 char less, though I
don't
know why off-hand.
> Check out what it would look like if I hadn't:
Okay, code and quotes are valid examples of why you want that.
> The sender has chosen to explicitly decide what lines can and
> cannot be flowed, and may have very good reasons for that. The
> mailer should respect that information, and not disregard it just
> because SOME parts of the message need can be reformatted.
The problem is about breaking, not flowing.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2917#comment:9>