Re: citation and flow-filling

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

>>> If the line already starts with a quoting character, then only ">"
>>> should be prepended.
>> 
>> Yes.  Try attached patch.
> 
> Works nicely.  Will this be committed?

Committed.

>> I don't think it should be used in flow-filling (it has it's own hard
>> coded rules to match rfc2646),
> 
> Well, I'd like to be able to make Gnus violate 2646 in this way.  I
> guess I would have to hack fill-flowed to do this, hm?

Yes.  If you think it would be useful for others, perhaps you could
submit a patch to make it customizable?

> I'd be satisfied with something that added a space at the end of each
> body line not followed by a blank line, and which added
> "Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed" to the header.
> 
> If any part of a message would suffer from this treatment, then I'd
> disable the hook entirely for just that message and send it as
> format=fixed.

It shouldn't be hard to write a hook and attach it to
`message-send-mail-hook' or something, I think.