[MlMt] Limit line width to 80 characters

Mateusz Parzonka parzonka at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 14:13:22 UTC 2013



On 1 Feb 2013, at 14:50, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 1 Feb 2013, at 14:23, Mateusz Parzonka wrote:
>
>> I've just started to use this mail client, but could not find a 
>> preference
>> to activate automatic line breaks so no line gets longer than a 
>> specified
>> length in characters.
>>
>> Is this function implemented?
>
> No, and this is a well-intentioned question: Why do you need it?
>
To harshly enforce my recipient to read the mail with the same 
formatting (line width) i have written it…
Hmm, after some re-evaluation of this intent and have to consider this a 
bad idea and dropped it. Thank you, for forcing me to think this 
through! :-)

> Note that MailMate uses soft line wrapping when the email is generated 
> (the `format=flowed` standard).

I now see the point.

Thanks
Mateusz
>
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> Benny
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