Re: HTML display in Gnus

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Kévin Le Gouguec <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> (if shr-use-fonts
>>     nil
>>   fill-column)
>>
>> This is surprising (to me), since shr-width's docstring says that an
>> integer value works just fine even when shr-use-fonts is set:
>
> Yeah, that looks like a bug, I think...  fill-column should either be
> used in both cases or none?

Agreed (and FWIW I'd lean toward both).

> The problem is that the user may have a window that's narrower than
> fill-column, so I think it may be a misfeature to rely on that variable
> in any case.

Right; IIUC that'd make the experience "no worse than" with plaintext
articles hard-wrapped to e.g. 72 columns.  I'd be OK with that, but
that's not an obvious decision to take.

>               See bug#40909 -- I think the solution here may be to
> introduce a max-width variable for shr instead of having a shr-width
> variable.

Wholehearted agreement there!