Re: Reply to self behavior

[Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net>]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:51:03 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> (setq fill-flowed-display-column nil)  (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
>> (lambda () (turn-off-auto-fill) (setq truncate-lines nil)
>> (use-hard-newlines)))  (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook (lambda ()
>> (setq truncate-lines nil)))  My only complaint is that
>> use-hard-newlines' shouldn't be necessary.
>> Any line longer than `fill-flowed-encode-column' should trigger a
>> format=flowed message automatically instead of generating a warning.
>
> That's the worst comb quoting and unreadable run-in garbage I've seen in
> a long time.
>
> Impressive that you managed to create it using gnus.

I'm impressed, too :P

This is caused by (use-hard-newlines) actually. Since quoted and pasted
text has no 'hard' newlines, it gets unwrapped. This makes replies to
not-flowed messages substantially impossible.

I don't think that's really expected. I was thinking of manually adding
'hard' properties to newlines in `message-mode-hook', but I don't think
that would actually be sufficient.

A safer approach could be replacing all newlines with 'hard' newlines in
`message-send-hook' then setting `use-hard-newlines' manually to trick
Gnus into sending a flowed message.

Not fun.