On 2025-02-26 11:21:42 -0700 (-0700), Soren Stoutner wrote: [...] > I have composed this email without an arbitrary column wrap, so > that those receiving it can see how it is handled by their various > clients and devices.
I'll note that I'm somewhat of a traditionalist, reading list mail (all E-mail really) with the current version of mutt from sid in an emulated 80x24 character terminal, because I spent years in front of serial terminals designed for that geometry (80x25 really but the bottom row is occupied by the terminal's status bar) and got overly accustomed to it. Mutt's default configuration handles non-wrapped long lines fairly gracefully, wrapping them at the last identifiable space character before the terminal's margin, or at the last character if it's an unbroken "word" longer than the terminal width, but then prefixing subsequent wrapped lines with a "+" to indicate they were all actually part of the same line originally. The only real hassle is if I want to copy a very long URL out of a message, I either need to piecemeal reassemble it from the lines that URL is spread across or pipe the body into another tool that doesn't wrap anything. It's likely there are config options for Mutt to alleviate this, I just haven't bothered to go digging. For the record, the editor I compose my messages in is set to wrap at 68 columns in order to avoid my lines being too long when quoted several indent levels deep, but I do sometimes manually re-flow any quoted material I haven't trimmed from others' messages if I see they're near to or exceeding my 80-character terminal margin. -- Jeremy Stanley
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