Re: RFC 2646

[Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>]

Per> Per Abrahamsen <URL:mailto:abraham@dina.kvl.dk>

0> In article <rjhfk0qlkf.fsf@feller.dina.kvl.dk>, Per wrote:

Per> After pGnus is released, I think RFC 2646 support would be a good
Per> thing to work on.  It solves some of the worst shortcommings of
Per> text/plain in a backward compatible way.

That's text/plain;format="flowed", isn't it?  I've thought about this a
little since I saw it appear.  I agree that it would be nice to use the
hint to render such messages; I'm not sure it would be as useful when
generating.  To do it right, you need to set quite a few variables to
ensure that quoting is done exactly as RFC2646 wants (matching ">+ *",
IIRC), and being careful with hard and soft newlines so that some source
code yanked into the message doesn't get wrapped[1].


[1] WIBNI Emacs had a buffer-local variable to say whether newlines were
    hard or soft by defualt in buffers that have use-hard-newlines unset,
    so that killed text can be yanked into buffers with use-hard-newlines
    turned on and the Right Thing would happen.  So C mode would have
    default-newline-property be 'hard, and text mode would have it be
    'soft.