Going GUI...er

[John Hawkinson]

disclaimer: I have not reviewed this thread in its entirety.

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote on Sat,  2 May 2020
at 12:16:45 EDT in <r8k6dd$2flf$1 at ciao.gmane.io>:

> _Nobody_ I work with uses an email client that properly displays
> plaintext as sent by mutt.
...
> Most of my family and friends do almost all of their e-mail on phones.
> Plaintext is very hard to read on small screans because it doesn't
> re-flow to fit the screen width. Forcing people to read plaintext on
> small screens is, IMO, inconsiderate.

This is not an attribute of mutt or plaintext. It is an attribute of plaintext with a particular kind of fixed line breaks.

Personally, I send mail via mutt and do not place hard line breaks at the end of each line, but effectively send every paragraph as a single very long line. (I often compose using Emacs' M-x visual-line-mode.)

I think this is not as good as proper format/flowed, but there seem to be technical difficulties making that work reliably, so it's an OK substitute.

> Insisting that the world switch from HTML to plaintext for e-mail is
> just tilting at a windmill.

I think this view is correct.

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John Hawkinson