On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:32:31 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> (defun harden-newlines () >> (save-excursion >> (goto-char (point-min)) >> (while (search-forward "\n" nil t) >> (put-text-property (1- (point)) (point) 'hard t)))) > > So, basically, you make all the newlines hard. Isn't the point of > `use-hard-newlines' that you can mix and match hard and soft newlines?
I guess the point of `use-hard-newlines' is to preserve the concept of soft and hard newlines when the text is being automatically manipulated by auto-fill. Just as a note, `longlines-mode' is a twist on the concept that performs word wrapping with soft newlines, but stores hard newlines only (simulating the effect of word-wrap). Is this mode still needed at all? The point of format=flowed is to have flowed text however, when reading *and* writing if the user so desires. For instance, when a flowed message is decoded in flow-fill.el, hard newlines aren't restored. This means that you can't actually make *use* of the distinction (a cheap hack would have been turning on `longlines-mode' in the article buffer with mixed hard/soft newlines). At least with `fill-flowed-display-column' I can force the unquoting so that I can still use word-wrap, but that's sub-optimal. Either fully support soft newlines, or use word-wrap and be done. >> word-wrap t >> use-hard-newlines t)))) > > You're mixing `use-hard-newlines' with `word-wrap', and the two don't > really mix that well. I think. Turning `use-hard-newlines' on is just a hack to force Gnus into generating a flowed message. Internally `fill-flowed-encode' unwraps all soft newlines and then rewraps then using `fill-region'. That's completely unnecessary with word-wrap (there are no more soft newlines). I simply skip the first step by marking all lines as hard. When lines longer than `message-fill-column' are seen, the body should be encoded automatically with format=flowed, or quoted-printable. But I can't see any variable that can regulate the final message encoding. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english