Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters
On Tue Mar 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM GMT, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
Additionally, some messages contain sections that should never be
soft-wrapped, such as diffs. I'm uncertain whether many MUAs offer a
smooth user interface to designate which paragraphs should be
hard-wrapped. At least Gnus (message.el) does not.
An inline-diff will not be wrapped unless any of the lines ends with a
space character. Of course, sometimes, they will; in which case, for
that email, the user should either not use format=flowed, or attach the
diff instead. Evidently this is not ideal. I hazard that inline-diffs is
a special-case rather than a general-case of email, these days.
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