format=flowed

[Victor Sudakov]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 19Dec2018 23:39, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
> >Christian Ebert wrote:
> >>* Victor Sudakov on Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 19:44:27 +0700:
> >>>Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >>>>On 19Dec2018 13:05, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
> >>>>>Does this very message conform to the flowed format? [...]
> >>>>
> >>>>I think so. It renders just fine in my mutt (flows nicely) and when I
> >>>>look at the headers and text directly it all seems good. And if I send
> >>>>both your message and one of mine off to my gmail account they both
> >>>>render badly.
> >>>
> >>>But your message doesn't flow in my mutt when I resize the terminal
> >>>window!
> >>
> >>It would/will if you do a sync-mailbox - bound to $ by default
> >>iirc.
> >
> >I did not know that. I expected it to reflow on SIGWINCH or something.
> >
> >It really does reflow on "$". Thank you.
> 
> It might be on redisplay: the display_filter gets rerun with a specific 
> window. Just try switch to another message and back.

Yes, it works this way too.

And it looks nicer than sending messages with no line-breaks at all
within each paragraph as John Hawkinson suggests. Because if I make my
xterm very wide, f=f messages don't get too wide (flowing stops at about
70 columns).

While in John's messages, each paragraph becomes a very long line which
is difficult to read.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/