format=flowed

[José María Mateos]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 05:02:14PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:10:02AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
>
> > I honestly think that without better editor integration, and /
> > or some way of validating that the content is actually formatted
> > properly (or post-editing formatting within Mutt), that it's not
> > a good idea for Mutt to support flowed text. Even when people are
> > using the right options in vim and doing everything else right, it
> > seems very fragile and prone to generating invalid flowed emails.

I tried to use flowed text with mutt + vim but there was always 
something that I couldn't get right. The fact that one needs to do some 
macro-editing of the text of the message (adding spaces, etc) seemed a 
bit off to me. Plus, sometimes I reply to e-mails that contain code 
snippets, and in those cases automatic wrapping tends to create some 
havoc.

In the end, I settled with hard line breaks plus this line in my mail 
vim config file:

set formatprg=par\ 72q

par seems to be smarter than regular vim reflowing. I always got some 
"orphaned" line that I needed to join with the next one manually, but 
this works like a charm.

Cheers,

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