Quoting character when replying

[Angel M Alganza]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 07:36:34PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:

>It looks like you have enabled $text_flowed.  That overrides the value 
>of $indent_string.

Indeed, I do.  The weird thing is that while I'm composing my email, I
see the > without the space, but once sent, the space is added.  I
hadn't realized that until two minutes ago, when I saw it in a previous
mail I sent to the list without adding the space manually (as I've been
doing in every single email I reply to for the last two years (according
to my comment on my .muttrc):

  set text_flowed=yes # Added by ama @ 2019/02/03

It seems that this is "what I did" which broke the $indent_string.  LOL

I'm not editing the paragraphs I'm responding to this time, to see if
the spaces show up again, for example in the next one:

>You can read a bit more about it at
><http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#ff>, but you'll want to do more
>research if you intend to compose format=flowed emails.

Thank you, I'm going to have a look at this.  I'd like to keep doing it,
since it might help others to read my email better regardless of their
email client and display.

I remember now I started using it to make things nicer for myself while
doing mail in my Zipit Z2 (All-in-One Wi-Fi Messenger), running OpenWRT,
in which I only have a 52 (IMS) characters wide console.

>From that link you gave me:

  "If $reflow_space_quotes is unset, mutt will still add one trailing
  space after all the quotes in the pager (but not when replying)."

I think that might explain the behaviour I'm observing.

Cheers,
Ángel