Re: [PATCH] Improve f=f interoperability
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> > * Johannes Stezenbach [07-11-04 12:43:00 +0100] wrote:
> >
> >> Have you made up your mind regarding this patch? It would
> >> be nice if something like this would be comitted before
> >> the next mutt release.
> >
> > Attached is another version that wraps these changes in $flowed_compat so
> > that the current behavior is left as default. Since I think 1.5.17 is for
> > bug fixes only and this not entirely a bug fix, it needs lots of testing
> > (more than just me).
>
> It works and it is fine by me.
>
> While testing your patch I realized that the $noflowed_compat
> quoting behaviour when creating format=fixed from format=flowed
> (add "> " to new quoted lines, add ">" for second quoting level)
> looks better than the $flowed_compat (always use $indent_string).
> (Although both are technically correct.)
>
> It might be worthwhile to add a second option to choose
> quoting behaviour for this case. If you want I could create
> such a patch (I don't want to put all the work for my silly
> indent_string Outlook emulation requirements on you).
>
> In that case you could commit the trailing space handling
> seperately from the quote handling, i.e. leave out the
> first hunk of the changes to rfc3676.c.
This issue is now tracked in ticket #3001, so it
doesn't get forgotten.
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3001
Yes, I still do care and hope it will eventually be resolved.
Greetings,
Johannes