Re: citation and flow-filling

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> 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?

>> I see message-cite-prefix-regexp, but I don't think it's used for
>> flow-filling, or citation in replies.  If not, I'd be happy to add
>> the code, if someone can point me in the right direction.
> 
> 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?

>> Also, is there an existing function I can add to message-send-hook or
>> some such to make my messages format=flowed?
> 
> Until emacs support visual cues for soft and hard line breaks, I see
> little point of adding support for it in Gnus -- I mean, how would you
> know if a paragraph contained soft or hard line breaks when you edit
> it?

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.


paul