Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

[Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>]

At 15:53 +0000 27 Feb 2025, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> If you happen to use edit_headers, you *might* want something like this 
> (no idea if mutt has adopted it yet, ensures no trailing space on empty 
> header lines):
>
> https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/1164

That PR shows as being merged several years ago. I'd supplied a similar 
patch for the original mutt as well, but had that rejected. After that I 
handled it in my vim by adding the following to 
~/.vim/ftplugin/mail.vim:

setlocal formatoptions+=rawn2
autocmd CursorMoved,CursorMovedI <buffer> call autoformat#mail()

The function called there is defined in https://github.com/aschrab/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/autoload/autoformat.vim
It takes care of removing the `a` and `w` options from `formatoptions` 
while in the header area.

Looks like I've been using that for ~13 years now, and I don't recall 
having any issues with it.