Narrow text body when composing/replying to mails

Narrow text body when composing/replying to mails

[Jan Detke]

Hello all,

I am using notmuch with the emacs frontend.With that I got an issue where my text body is verry narrow while
composing/replying to mails (as you can see). To get rid of this, I
added the follwoing to my config file:

```
  (add-hook! 'notmuch-message-mode-hook #'turn-on-visual-line-mode)
  (add-hook! 'notmuch-message-mode-hook #'turn-off-auto-fill)
```

But this did not work out for me. Any suggestion here?

-- 
Jan Detke

Re: Narrow text body when composing/replying to mails

[Sandra Snan]

Jan Detke <jandetke@outlook.com> writes:
> With that I got an issue where my text body is verry narrow 
> while composing/replying to mails (as you can see).

Instead, do this:

    (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
              (lambda ()
                (use-hard-newlines 3 t)))

Re: Narrow text body when composing/replying to mails

[Sandra Snan]

Sandra Snan <sandra.snan@idiomdrottning.org> writes:
> Instead, do this: 
> 
>     (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 
>               (lambda () 
>                 (use-hard-newlines 3 t))) 

While keeping auto-fill-mode on, I mean. This sets the format flowed
header according to RFC 2646 so that your fills reads as if they were
softwrapped for the recipient.

Re: Narrow text body when composing/replying to mails

[Sandra Snan]

Huh, there is a bug here, apparently, looking at the raw version 
of what I sent. It doesn't properly insert the RFC 2646 
line-ending spaces.

Sandra Snan <sandra.snan@idiomdrottning.org> writes:

> Sandra Snan <sandra.snan@idiomdrottning.org> writes:
>> Instead, do this: 
>> 
>>     (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 
>>               (lambda () 
>>                 (use-hard-newlines 3 t))) 
>
> While keeping auto-fill-mode on, I mean. This sets the format flowed
> header according to RFC 2646 so that your fills reads as if they were
> softwrapped for the recipient.

Re: Narrow text body when composing/replying to mails

[Jan Detke]

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Thanks for your fast reply Sandra.

On So, Feb 25 2024 11:28, Sandra Snan wrote

> Huh, there is a bug here, apparently, looking at the raw version
> of what I sent. It doesn't properly insert the RFC 2646
> line-ending spaces.

In fact, it does not work for me either. I commented my lines of code
and used your code snippet below. Hence auto-fill-mode was kept on while
testing it on my side.


>>> Instead, do this:
>>>
>>> (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
>>> (lambda ()
>>> (use-hard-newlines 3 t)))

Maybe there are some settings interfering with the right
placement/insertion of RFC2646.

Any thoughts on this?


--
Jan Detke

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