From: David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
To: Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rant - Emacs mail is not user friendly
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:49:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5468E39E.6040807@porkrind.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nWtpGiyFKR9k7nE3zeYlerT8rNARjNQg7DewPsssrEs@local>
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On 11/16/14 4:18 AM, Kelly Dean wrote:
> Last problem that I do care about is that Emacs keeps inserting line
> breaks after 72 characters, so I have to switch out of message-mode
> or copy/paste from another buffer to make it stop doing that because
> I can't find the setting to turn it off.
Looks like it runs "auto-fill-mode". You can turn it off, or you can
adjust the column that it wraps with the "fill-column" variable.
> Why is it turned on by default? Modern email readers do have
> word-wrap, after all. Even Emacs.
Probably because of tradition. It's generally considered polite to wrap
your column somewhere between 72 to 78. The SMTP spec (RFC 821) says:
> The maximum total length of a text line including the <CRLF> is 1000
> characters (but not counting the leading dot duplicated for
> transparency).
So there is a maximum, though it's about a 13 line paragraph (wrapped at
72).
Many email clients (including Thunderbird, which I'm using) use the
quotable-printable encoding to encode longer lines (which escapes the
line with an "=" if it's not meant to end). I guess this idea is to make
the raw text mostly readable but still unwrappable. I think it's quite
ugly, but it appears to be a pretty universal standard.
-David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-16 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <emacs-mail-is-unusable-0>
2014-11-15 11:46 ` Rant - Emacs mail is not user friendly Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-16 12:18 ` Kelly Dean
2014-11-16 17:49 ` David Caldwell [this message]
2014-11-16 22:52 ` Stephen Berman
2014-11-17 9:48 ` Kelly Dean
2014-11-16 23:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-17 10:06 ` Kelly Dean
2014-11-17 13:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-17 19:54 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-18 5:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-21 14:51 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-21 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-22 5:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-22 15:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-22 16:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-22 11:08 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-22 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-22 5:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-22 11:09 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-21 16:22 ` Emacs dependencies vs. security Ivan Shmakov
2014-12-19 17:22 ` application/x-patch MIME type used by Gnus? (was: Rant - Emacs mail is not user friendly) Reiner Steib
2014-12-19 20:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
[not found] <emacs-mail-is-unusable-0@[87.69.4.28]>
2014-11-15 8:27 ` Rant - Emacs mail is not user friendly Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <54670009.027ce00a.0184.ffffdfd3SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2014-11-15 7:54 ` Alexis
2014-11-15 6:54 Kelly Dean
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