[Sheflug] re: b0rked mail stuff (and speed)

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Craig Andrews writes:
 > >>So what I am supposed to do ? Wrap at 74? 76? Maybe 70? If quotes go to
 > two deep, that means you can have '> > ' >>which breaks lines at 76.. and of
 > course, it assumes we're all using 80-column terminals to read our mail
 > (hint: I'm not).
 > 
 > Why use word wrapping at all? If you wrap at, say 75 chars, those of use
 > using 132 char terminals get a skinny thin mail on the left of the screen.
 > The best editors out there autowrap the text, but save without line breaks
 > (vi, emacs, etc), so why should a mail client?

I'm using VM, and all the messages that I recieve that have not been
wrapped by the sender run to the edge of the screen, then wrap,
regardless if it's the middle of a word....

On replying I can use M-x fill-nonuniform-paragraphs to mash (there's
no better word) everything into the wrap.
Line breaks get ignored with this "feature".

Reading across a monitor screen (as opposed to half the screen when
wrapped) is a pain.

Does Outlook even wrap unwrapped emails?

Baz.

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