[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:56PM -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> On Thursday 07 October 2004 at 04:34+0800, John wrote:
> > Do you think you could have a chat with mailsmith about wrapping text?
> > Thanks.
> 
> I think it's a no win situation. By default Mailsmith does not put in
> _any_ line breaks.
> 
> If a mail client capable of flowed text receives a message without
> line breaks, it puts them where it wants them and usually botches
> quoted text. Also, some people have there own preferences set to how
> they want their text wrapped.
> 
> When I send mail without breaks, I have had people complain. When I
> send mail with breaks I have had people complain. So, it seems like a
> no win situation.

format=flowed is the usual answer to this; I believe it's standardized,
although not all mail clients support it. (I don't use it because it's
difficult for a mail client like mutt to integrate closely enough with
an external editor to use it.)

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]