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Support for format=flowed #2
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The user agent I primarily had in mind is the Gmail app on
Android. I just couldn't stand seeing the messages I sent from
Emacs when reviewing a mailing list thread on my phone.
Emacs message-mode does support displaying flowed messages, though
for some reason the default value of `fill-flowed-display-column`
is just `fill-column`. I customized it and set it to `(min
fill-column (- (window-width) 5))`, such that the display width
adapts to the width of my Emacs window.
I guess many mail clients are not very interested in implementing
this, since they assume that a client that can send format=flowed
messages will also send an HTML alternative. I've been thinking
about making Emacs do that, composing messages in Markdown or Org,
and having them converted to HTML automatically before sending — I
seem to remember seeing an implementation of just that
somewhere. Of course, the question then is what do you send as the
text/plain alternative? I've configured Emacs to prefer text/plain
over text/html, and I dislike seeing raw Markdown in the
text/plain part, as some web sites apparently do.
I guess improving Emacs to make sending HTML messages in an Emacsy
way is ultimately the way forward. Meanwhile, messages-are-flowing
hopefully makes my messages more readable to at least some people.
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I was pretty confused by this discussion :-) But I think I managed to figure it out, so posting here in case it helps someone else. Presumably the whole point of this package is to support https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs-mime/Flowed-text.html The main problem for me is that while I'm writing (plain text) mail in emacs, I am not sending it via gnus or indeed via emacs at all - I'm sending it via mutt. So none of this flowed text support which ships with emacs is particularly helpful for me right now, and neither is |
I've created https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FormatFlowed to try to make sense of all of this. |
You got it right: right now this is rather entwined with message-mode. I commented about a potential way to get emacs+mutt to do the right thing in #4, but I haven't tried it myself. |
Ah that's useful info, thanks! |
Hi,
I, too, thought about doing exactly the same 2 or 3 years ago but my understanding of text properties was even poorer than it is now. Thank you for doing it. Another reason for me to not invest time on it is it's apparent poor support in mail user agents:
What is your opinion on it?
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