Re: Odd formatting

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 30 Apr 2012, Antoine Levitt uttered the following:

> 30/04/12 09:48, Steinar Bang
>>>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>>
>>> Totally off topic, I was looking at how strange your messages are
>>> rendering and wondering whether the mail reader was interpreting your
>>> messages incorrectly or something.  But here's the (sort of) raw source
>>> of that text:
>>
>>> <div>I agree with you. Fortunately that&#39;s not what I&#39;m arguing. I&#39;m arguing that</div><div>for a very specific corner of the type system, we merge two separate</div>
>>> <div>meanings of nil. I&#39;m arguing that the empty string as it is used today is,</div><div>for all intents, just another nil. So it should not signal an error if they are</div><div>treated the same.</div>
>>
>>> (This is the text/html part of the multipart message you send.)
>>
>> Note that the text/plain version of the message is foramatted exactly
>> like the bit you quoted.
>
> Looks like he's writing his email in emacs, with emacs wrapping, and
> then pasting it into gmail, which then adds further (and different)
> wrapping. Not much gnus can do, I think.

Yeah. I suspect the Emacs wrapping is considered hard returns, and gmail
is adding further soft returns on top of that, and then expressing each
hard return as a <div>. Solution, "don't do that then", since I doubt
there is a way to turn off wrapping in gmail or to get it to stop
treating each explicitly-entered RET as a <div>.

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