Re: [nail-devel] Re: nailrc entry to check gmail using pop3s?

[Suresh R. <ops...@gm...>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:21:23 +0100, Gunnar Ritter
<Gun...@pl...> wrote:
> format=flowed is unfortunately not a solution for that. In fact, many
> of the MUAs that are typically used to send overlong lines (e. g. some
> Microsoft products, web-mail interfaces) do not use format=flowed, so

That trend's changing though.  Hotmail does format=flowed, Outlook
Express (one of the worst offenders in generating overlong lines and
mangling quoted text) now does format=flowed, after installing XP SP2
and then the latest IE updates.

The webmail outfit I work for (~ 40 million users) is investigating
the deployment of this as well.

Lots of clients deploy it now - it has come a long way since when
Eudora was more or less the only client implementing it.

> that can already mostly be achieved using "par"
> <http://www.nicemice.net/par/> with the "~|" tilde escape in nail or
> the "!" command in vi. On the receiving side, I see no real advantage
> yet.

map V 0!}par w76

or to wrap text on the fly (in mutt)  -

set editor="vim +':set textwidth=75' +':set wrap' +\`awk '/^$/ {print
i+2; exit} {i++}' %s\` %s"

Sure you can do this, and I do it all the time.  

> text_flowed set, and muttrc(5) says "To actually make use of this
> format's features, you'll need support in your editor.". Such would
> not be an acceptable method of supporting format=flowed for nail.

fwiw, vim is perfectly good at this, as is emacs

> Well, perhaps somebody else will be willing to implement this in the
> future; you were not the first person requesting it. The conditions
> should be mostly clear now.

Sounds good, thanks.

regards
--srs

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops...@gm...)