Re: Esc-d deletes too much in a shell script

[Stefan Monnier]

> First case here (with leading line numbers):
>                                                               Y  cursor
> position
>    55     echo "################################################"
>    56 fi
>    57 #
>    58 echo "\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$ $0 \$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$\$"

# is not considered as being a word-constituent, so it's treated by M-f and
M-d just the same as whitespace (same thing for ").

> No. Also the next line was partially deleted (the variable's name  `Datum´).

Right all the non-word chars are deleted unpto the next word (in this case
"fi") which is itself also deleted.

>                                 Y cursor position
>    21 echo "^^^^^^^^^ $0 ^^^^^^^^^"

Same thing: ^ and $ and \ are not word-constituents.

> Sorry, I have no idea what to do! When I receive from another (Apple)  Mail
> user an eMail that originally contained lines longer than 70 or  such
> columns they appear on my screen as of original length. I, too,  can
> complain about other MUAs like Thunderbird or such that do not  seem to work
> right. I think Mail converts the eMail body as typed in  UTF-8 to 7-bit MIME
> to send it through relays without falsification  to the receiver ...

The problem is not quoted-printable: one of the lines (after being
un-quoted) looks like:

    6    #<repeated 72 times>
#####

also the header says the content is text/plain (good) and format=flowed
(which is clearly wrong in this case).


        Stefan