On 26 Jun 2024, at 8:54, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2024-06-26 at 05:23:12 UTC-0400 (Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:23:12 +0200)
Eelco Chaudron <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
Yes, but that is the behavior I do not want. I want mm to auto wrap
when typing. This is useful when replying to patches we’re auto
formatting might be messing stuff up.
MM (and anything that supports format=flowed properly) respects
explicit line breaks and does not re-wrap text with fixed line breaks
such as code patches when composing replies.
That's correct F=F behavior.
It also will NOT "auto-wrap" by forcibly inserting line breaks to
enforce a maximum line length, as that would harm intentional
formatting for text such as code.
Correct F=F behavior is to insert a "soft" line break so lines intended
for refolding are no more than 78 characters. By inserting "soft" line
breaks within a plain text F=F body (or body part), the text is more
easily handled by non-F=F clients.
Within a plain text F=F body (or body part), there is a distinction
between lines that have a "soft" line break for backwards compatibility
and thus suitable for reflowing by a F=F-aware displaying client, and
lines that have a "hard" line break (e.g., because they're code or
poetry or an ASCII table or whatever). (A soft line break is a space
CRLF sequence.)
F=F also standardizes marking lines as quoted, so they can be correctly
reflowed by a F=F-aware displaying client to fit the window size.
Note that some MUAs do not respect explicit line breaks and may delete
them to reflow text, notably MS Outlook. Some MUAs also do not
understand how to present "format=flowed" plaintext, leaving sections
that should be soft-wrapped by the MUA to run right off the edge of a
window.
So it’s more an editor/composer feature what I need.
Since F=F requires only that soft-wrapped lines not exceed 78
characters, MailMate could have a preference for the maximum
soft-wrapped line length, default 78, maximum value 78. Users who care
could set this to a lower value to cause shorter soft-wrapped lines.
If MailMate is generating F=F with soft-wrapped lines exceeding 78
characters, I'd say that's a bug.
--Randall
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