Re: Reply to self behavior

[Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:51:03 +0100, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> said:

DK> Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> writes:

>> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:40:33 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>> Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> writes: > >>>> (_real_
>> format=flowed support anyone? it's supported since 199? in >>>>
>> outlook) >>> >>> What doesn't work? And what is format=flowed? Why
>> would you want it?  >> >> format=flowed encodes hard-newlines in the
>> message, while still wrapping >> the source of the message to 80
>> columns. This allow compliant readers to >> either show the wrapped
>> text or flow the content to the window's >> margins.  > > In what way
>> doesn't format=flowed work in Gnus?  I think that was
>>> implemented at least a decade ago, but it may have bitrotted in
>> the mean > time...
>> 
>> After reading the sources, I was able to achieve flowed zenity with
>> the following:
>> 
>> (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.

DK> That's the worst comb quoting and unreadable run-in garbage I've
DK> seen in a long time.

DK> Impressive that you managed to create it using gnus.

DK> -- David Kastrup

Remarkable, indeed! Almost better than .newsrc.eld =)


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Philipp Haselwarter