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Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")
- From: "William Blunn" <bill--cygwin at tao-group dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:11:28 -0000
- Subject: Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")
- References: <010701c464f4$398e2030$4e6510ac@ds.tao.co.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407081027371.11665@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> <013301c464fe$e2e425d0$4e6510ac@ds.tao.co.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407081124080.11665@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> <41B9E7AD.7070606@tao-group.com>
I was using Microsoft Outlook Express, which does not support
format=flowed.
Turns out this is not entirely true.
Outlook Express *does* have some support for format=flowed, but not as much
as Thunderbird.
Using the default setting of "Encode Text Using" = "None" (as opposed to
"quoted-printable"), it will generate messages with format=flowed, and it
will happily re-flow quoted replies so that they fit into the 78 (or
whatever) columns.
However, it does not re-flow format=flowed messages for display, which kind
of wastes half of the point of format=flowed. I think this may be linked to
the fact that it doesn't do anything clever with the way is displays quoted
messages; you just see the original ">" characters.
Thunderbird *does* re-flow format=flowed messages for display, and quoted
messages are shown using quote bars.
So Outlook Express with the default settings would be list-friendly but not
user-friendly.
But Thunderbird is list-friendly *and* user-friendly.
(This message will be sent using Outlook Express with the default settings.
It'll be interesting to see how it appears in the resultant e-mail, and also
in the list web archive.)
Bill
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