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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">On 24 May 2021, at 0:32, Randy Bush wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">If the default is going to be non-flowed email, the default font in
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the composer should, I think, be a monospace font and a character
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ruler should be displayed. Is that feasible?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">indeed, my composer font is Monaco 12, and i am very dependent on MM
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remembering the compose window width. and i miss emacs M-q reflow.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I feel I need to clear up what might be a bit confusing. The (likely temporary) abandonment of format=flowed does not in any way mean that I think hard-wrapping anything is a good idea. Hard-wrapping is bad. Period.</p>
<p dir="auto">MailMate encourages soft-wrapping and it should be handled by the email client without the user being involved at all. The user might want to set the window width to soft-wrap in whatever width works best for the user when writing and email (or use the new “View ▸ Soft Wrap Column” setting), but the email sent shouldn't in any way enforce this width for the recipient.</p>
<p dir="auto">The discussion about “format=flowed” is about what works best when sending a soft-wrapped email from A to B. This is almost entirely a technical discussion about what works best in practice and the answer might not be the same for all users at all times. I some times joke that a (very long) book could be written about the From header in emails. A second book could then be about line wrapping in emails (it would be a lot shorter though -- the history/complexity of the From header is insane).</p>
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Benny</p>
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