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Re: [Mutt] #3001: format=flowed (interoperability)



#3001: format=flowed (interoperability)
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  Reporter:  js           |       Owner:  pdmef              
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed             
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  1.6                
 Component:  mutt         |     Version:                     
Resolution:  fixed        |    Keywords:  format=flowed patch
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Changes (by pdmef):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 This is how it's supposed to work.

 The flowed handler will -- when you make a non-flowed reply to a flowed
 message -- use `$indent_string` to indent the line. Quoted flowed lines
 have no space between quote and text. Thus, we don't mangle the content
 when we prepare a reply, just as we do for all other formats. I think this
 shouldn't be changed. If we would mangle `> >>Foo` quote to `> >> Foo` or
 the like, we'd have to do the same for replying to non-flowed messages
 (which would be highly unexpected).

 For display, the issue is completely different because we're free to
 display the message as we want. Even if not, we only mangle it for the
 local display, nobody except the local user will ever see this
 modification. This includes reflowing the text, adding spaces after
 quotes, etc.

 Please open another ticket if we want quoting style with format=flowed
 being changed, this one is only about compatibility and is fixed.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3001#comment:12>
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