From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25812 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Speight Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: RFC 2646 Date: 11 Oct 1999 13:08:04 +0100 Organization: Citrix Systems (Cambridge) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163131 15972 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:18:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15248 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:10:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB06677; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 07:10:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 11 Oct 1999 07:10:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA23227 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 07:10:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (root@gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com [195.153.38.114]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15235 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:08:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (sh.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.4]) by gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with ESMTP id NAA00167 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:08:07 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from hwmail01.ctxuk.citrix.com (hwmail01.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.23]) by sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with ESMTP id NAA16132 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:08:06 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from lanber.cam.citrix.com (LANBER [10.70.1.235]) by hwmail01.ctxuk.citrix.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 4V045946; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:08:05 +0100 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List Original-Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "09 Oct 1999 23:19:12 +0200" X-Author-Info: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25812 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25812 Per> Per Abrahamsen 0> In article , 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.