Re: mutt: 5 new changesets

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, June 26 at 04:54 PM, quoth Rocco Rutte:
> >     A generating agent SHOULD:
> >         1. Ensure all lines (fixed and flowed) are 79 characters or 
> >            fewer in length, counting the trailing space but not 
> >            counting the CRLF, unless a word by itself exceeds 79 
> >            characters.. 
> >         2. Trim spaces before user-inserted hard line breaks. 
> >         3. Space-stuff lines which start with a space, "From ", or 
> >            ">".
>
> As documented in the manual, mutt does #3 after the initial editing 
> of a message, except space-stuffing before '>' because it can't 
> separate quotes from '>' in text.

That's what I thought; mutt can't read my mind. :)

> For #2, ACK.

Indeed!

> For #1, mutt already does that when preparing a reply, though you 
> can break that rule by changing the wrapping accordingly in the 
> editor. I think the user is responsible for sending something sane 
> out, I'm not convinced mutt should change a message without the user 
> having a chance to intercept.

Well, that's certainly reasonable. What about instituting something 
similar to the existing format markers? Just as mutt indicates in the 
compose menu that the text attachment will be encoded as 
quoted-printable, how about a similar (toggle-able) marker to tell the 
user whether or not f=f will be used and/or enforced?

~Kyle
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