From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86678 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: text/plain with 80 char wrap vs the flowed mime-type (whatever it is) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:52:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87powmeahd.fsf@yale.edu> References: <0legd2r8dh.fsf@wjh.hardakers.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453947243 20394 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2016 02:14:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 02:14:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34904@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 28 03:13:51 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aOc5m-000848-80 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:13:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aOc50-0003JN-7T; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:13:02 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aObla-00039q-1p for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:52:58 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aOblY-0007GU-MM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:52:57 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aOblW-0004JP-Sz for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 02:52:54 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aOblV-0000GR-Ky for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 02:52:53 +0100 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 02:52:53 +0100 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2016 02:52:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Ts5JZ7kGonMqnnkDJKdFjuF68c= X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86678 Archived-At: 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.