Re: Support for encoding format=flowed (RFC 2646)

[Matt Armstrong <matt+dated+200201181334.2d810e@lickey.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> I have checked in preliminary format=flowed support.  The 
> missing

> functionality right now is doing the right thing when following 
> up > 
> > on

> an article.

> > How to use: Enable `use-hard-newlines' (see emacs manual) in 
> > the

> message buffer, and the code should fill and format=flow encode 
> your

> article according to the soft/hard newlines in the buffer. 
> Hint: I

> find `use-hard-newlines' useless without something similar to 
> M-x

> longlines-show-hard-newlines RET from longlines.el.

> > (I also changed the format=flowed decoding code to flow the > 
> > > message > to

> the width of the window.)

> > As you can see, the above

> paragraphs are filled nicely

> while this one sentences isn't.

> This is because I hit RET after

> each of these lines, without

> using M-q on the paragraph.

> > > --

matt

Seems to work, with some problems that probably aren't all Gnus 
related.  I have this in my .gnus:

    (defun my-message-setup-hook ()

      (use-hard-newlines 1 'always)

      (require 'longlines)

      (set (make-local-variable 'longlines-show-hard-newlines) t))

    (add-hook 'gnus-message-setup-hook 'my-message-setup-hook)

First, when I turn on longlines minor mode, my signature gets 
glommed onto the text I am replying to (see above).  This is 
probably a longlines thing.  Hmm...

Second, when Gnus inserts my .signature, they get inserted with 
hard newlines.  So others see a blank line after my '--' signature 
line.

Third, maybe this is a longlines thing, but I can't bear to edit a 
message without a blank line between each paragraph.  Is there a 
way to get longlines to do that for me?

Fourth, is inserting two blank lines for every hard newline the 
right thing to do?  I bet my elisp above is going to look funny.