Re: text/plain with 80 char wrap vs the flowed mime-type (whatever it is)

[jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)]

Wes Hardaker writes:

> So, I was co-writing a mail message with my wife yesterday and I 
> noticed, after sending her my copy of the proposed text, using 
> the standard wrap length (76 or whatever it is), that it looked 
> fairly messed up on her small phone screen. 
> 
> What are people using for wrapping text these days?  Sticking 
> with an assumed 80 char screen?  Always using non-wrapped text? 
> 
> Sadly, what I suspect I need to is set up different parameters 
> in different topics depending on who I'm writing to. 
> 
> I suspect that the 80-char battle finally sunk with the massive 
> change in form factors that people read mail on now.  Should I 
> bother to continue assuming I know how I want to lay out my 
> message, when the reader really should have their preference for 
> generic paragraphs (as opposed to structured things like code or 
> ascii diagrams). 
> 
> Thoughts?

I have:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'use-hard-newlines)
#+END_SRC

That allows the message to be sent with format=flowed.

Best,
-- 
Jorge.