On 2005-10-12 02:13:30 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > >On 2005-10-10 | 14:55:34, Kyle Wheeler wrote: >>>>How can I correctly display (rewrap to terminal width) >>>>format=flowed messages? > >>It should "Just Work" - what is going wrong? > >It is not rewrapped to screen-width: > >http://www.hostmaster.org/~thomasz/format=flowed.png > >http://www.hostmaster.org/~thomasz/format=flowed.txt > >(First paragraph should be flowed) > Hmm, that is odd... now that you mention it, it isn't working for me > either. It used to... (or maybe I'm just remembering my brief experience > with mutt-ng?) this seems like a bug. You can submit it to > http://bugs.mutt.org (or I can). By re-flowing, you mean "extend the line width to 140 characters"? No, mutt doesn't do that. And no, it's not a bug. If mutt-ng does it, it's a good reason not to use mutt-ng. Why? Reader-friendly lines are well below 80 characters long. Currently, the format=flowed handler will try hard not to output lines over 77 characters long. I regularly use mutt in xterms well over 80 columns wide, because that's useful for the index. But I would object to a change to mutt that would reformat any format=flowed message to the full width of that window just because we can. Additionally, the format=flowed handler is written to do as little re-flowing as possible, on the theory that format=flowed messages are normally formatted to be well readable as plain text. From my mail reading experience, that theory has proven to be largely right. -- Thomas Roessler · Personal soap box at <http://log.does-not-exist.org/>.
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