flowed text (was: Adding delsp=yes to Content-Type)

[Cameron Simpson]

On 06Jul2019 10:39, José María Mateos <chema at rinzewind.org> wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 12:41:21AM -0400, sunnycemetery at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hopefully this message body flowed well for you.  ;)
>
>It did flow well for me. Now I'm curious: I tried to get flowed messages
>working for me but in the end I gave up because I couldn't compose
>indented blocks as I like, so I went back to fixed width format.

I'm curious about your experiments with composing flowed text. I'm using 
vim invoked thus:

  vim \
      -c 'silent 1,/^$/s/  *$//' \
      -c 'set filetype=mail' \
      -c 'set formatoptions=waqj'

which produces a ... workable experience. It is a little prone to minor 
breakage and I do go back to check for the trailing spaces used to mark 
flowed lines.

I'd be happy to find improvements.

What did you try, and how did it fail? What was good?

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>