On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Tixy wrote:
On Sat, 2023-11-25 at 13:49 +0000, Tixy wrote:On Sat, 2023-11-25 at 11:46 +0000, Tim Woodall wrote:OK. This is weird! Something is joining those two lines.Not at this end it isn't. For me, all 3 of your diffs look the same on screen and are binary the same apart from the space you deleted in the third one. Perhaps your MUA is treating it as being in quoted-printable encoding?I've just looked at the message on the web archive [1] and see that shows the lines joined before you removed the space after the '=', perhaps that's what you were looking at? [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00898.html
I wasn't looking at that but yes, that's exactly what I was seeing. When I view them in alpine, both the versions in sent-mail and the versions in debian-user look like that, with the lines joined. If I "postpone" the message and then continue editing the lines do not get merged (I tested this while composing the previous messages) After your email (thanks) I went and checked the Maildir. All the messages are correct with the linebreak - so they've gone out from alpine, thirough various mailservers to debian-user and then back through more to my Maildir and nothing has corrupted them. Interestingly, and I didn't think to try this before because my emails are plain text, hitting `H' (full header mode) does display the message correctly with the linebreak. My guess is that it's an unfortunate interaction of using vim as my editor, alpine setting format=flowed and that diff having a trailing space. I think, therefore, alpine (and the webserver you linked to) are correctly reflowing these two lines. At some point I need to see if there's a way to get alpine (or vim) to warn about this situation or maybe a different header would be more appropriate as I do not have :set fo+=w so I do not normally have trailing spaces (and vim does highlight them for me so I knew it was there but I left it in deliberately. Now I know about this I can avoid it - but a better header would seem to be appropriate given that I do not use this feature. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16282728/how-do-i-compose-format-flowed-emails-that-include-hanging-indents-with-vim Tim.