On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020517 09:32]: > > Flowed just means that 72 character lines are terminated by a soft > > return instead of a hard return so that when a program like Mutt reads > > the e-mail it will see the soft return and treat it as a return and so > > it will get proper wrapping, but if a client like Mozilla receives it, > > it can remove the soft returns. The point of this is so that the text > > What's a soft return? My impression was that a linefeed(\012, or \n) > marks the end of a line. If you send text without linefeeds in it, it's > all on one line.
In the format=flowed layout, the "soft return" mentioned above is an end-of-line preceded by whitespace. It's a reasonably neat extension in that it's invisible to humans but potentially usable by editors. I'm not sure what its support among Unix editors is like, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]