From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Wrong use of format=flowed antidote Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:18:55 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: References: <87pr07qjio.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <878w6vq7ew.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <871vcmhq79.fsf@wivenhoe.ul.ie> <580d5f23-e251-483f-9752-7e77b1ca2fb7@40g2000pry.googlegroups.com> <2a7dc148-e2cc-4681-9d8c-ccd1140aa6d7@j36g2000prj.googlegroups.com> <089883ee-0a63-4cb4-a0ec-d2fe4e71cc03@y18g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <87wruco5yq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ocfomak6.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> <87wrucccl3.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291828521 27500 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 17:15:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:15:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 18:15:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQNbn-00033g-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:15:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49398 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQNbm-0003SJ-Ti for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:15:15 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1275887943 23003 147.188.193.16 (7 Jun 2010 05:19:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 05:19:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <87wrucccl3.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178697 comp.emacs:99938 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75676 Archived-At: On 6/6/2010 6:09 PM, Reiner Steib wrote: > > That is because the user misconfigured Thunderbird. format=flowed > applied as intended doesn't suffer from this problem. You were right. I have discovered that one has to set mailnews.wraplength to get format=flowed to kick in. I have now set my wraplength to 79 (leaving an extra column for the last space). Let us hope this works ok. In general, my principle is to put as few line breaks as possible because your editor can add line breaks easily wherever you want it to. On the other hand, if I put too many line breaks and you want them removed, your editor won't know which ones to remove. Format=flowed is a good compromise. Cheers, Uday