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

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2025-03-16 at 18:18:58 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> […]
> such as:
> 
>   # On time+3, Carol wrote:
>   # >On time+2, Bob wrote:
>   # >>On time+1, Alice wrote:
>   # >>>Some long reply line that supposedly gets wrapper at 7x chars or 
>   # >>>so, continued.
>   # >>Some long reply line that supposedly gets wrapper at 7x chars or so, 
>   # >>continued.
>   # >Some long reply line that supposedly gets wrapper at 7x chars or so, 
>   # >continued.
>   # Some long reply line that supposedly gets wrapper at 7x chars or so, 
>   # continued.

> Which I find to be very annoying and hard to read from my editor (vim).
> And checking how this is shown now in mutt (before sending), with
> text_flowed disabled, but reflow_text enabled, indicates to me the
> mangling is worse than I thought, but perhaps it's just reflow_text being
> applied to a text that is not yet sent and will not be format=flowed,
> thus should not really be applied to, otherwise you might need to check
> the raw text of the mail. :/

Ah, sorry, it looks like I started drafting that reply with
text_flowed enabled, and that was preserved after postponing and
continuing with a new mutt session with the option disabled. (Hopefully
the example is seen correctly now.)

Thanks,
Guillem