On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:09:09AM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.09.14 16:29, Will Yardley wrote: > > The problem, though, is that doing so in a tool like mutt where the > > editor is (by design) completely divorced from the MUA does make it a > > lot more difficult to properly generate flowed text. > > Nope, it works fine for me, without effort of any significance. The > "problem" of scrambling standard email quoting when reflowing arises > only when a poster uses an incompetent editor to compose a reply. When I > reply in-line to a post, and break a quoted paragraph before a sentence, > and the paragraph rump needs reflowing, then the ordinary gq} command > respects the quoting, just as insert automatically prepends "> " to the > new line.
Yes, but if you forget to do this, or manually mangle a line, you could end up generating non-compliant text. My point isn't that there aren't editors that are capable of generating the text correctly, but that it's difficult to mutt to know for sure that you have done so. w
