Fwd: Re: formatting and addresses

[Dave Liquorice]

On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:22:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>> I found reflow would do the nasty long line/short line thing to long
>> lines of quoted text, when they contained a hard <cr><lf>. Does it
>> reflow quotes correctly now, when your window width is set to > 80
>> characters?
> 
> Yes.  But that isn't the point.

Steve, you miss the point.

> Even though PMMail's editor doesn't do it, other editors can reflow 
> quotes rather easily.

I'm not talking about editors, I'm talking about the reflow at send 
option. When I (last) tried it it would produce the nasty long/line 
short thing.

Set to reflow at send, set a new message window width to > 80 
characters, take a line 79 characters long terminated with a hard 
<cr><lf>, insert the quote marks at the beginning, send. What is the 
result?

> With joe, for example, ^K^J will reflow a quote.

The OS/2 version is about as friendly as kick up the backside. The 
version supplied with Red Hat Linux is far better but then that has all 
the required libraries installed and doesn't require all the piddling 
about with emx that the OS/2 one does.

> In vim it is Q followed by a movement command (Q} to do the entire 
> block of quotes, for example).

Ah vim,  a toilet cleaner.  B-)


Cheers
Dave.