Re: Visual line mode in email citation

[Štěpán Němec]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, May 31 2010, Uday S Reddy wrote:
>
>> Getting email messages with long lines is a pretty common thing.
>
> Unfortunately.  MUAs (and users) that use format=flowed correctly,
> insert soft newlines at (say) column 70.  Your message was incorrect
> with regards to this.  Thunderbird is (or was?) known to have issues
> with f=f.
>
>> Both VM and Gnus (as far as I can tell) have traditionally used the
>> longlines package to handle such long lines.
>
> Gnus doesn't use longlines-mode at all.

But it suffers from the problem mentioned in this thread, i.e. producing
paragraphs which have the citation prefix (`> ' in my case) only on the
first line.

`gnus-treat-fill-long-lines' and `gnus-treat-fill-article' are also far
from perfect -- the former often produces paragraphs with normal and
very short lines interchanging, the latter usually messes up citation.

     Štěpán

>
> Bye, Reiner.