[svlug] Convincing Rationale URL for Old Man to Shorten Email Line Length?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:39:32PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2001 22:42:45 -0700 
> todd  <CB> wrote:
> 
> > begin J C Lawrence quotation:
> 
> >> I should correct my initial statement: "I find nested quotes
> >> which place whitespace between the quote characters annoying."  I
> >> agree
> 
> > Currently, my mutt is set for "> ".  I would assume I could devise
> > some little bit of script which would make "> " or ">" depending
> > upon the value of the first character of the line (ie ">" or ! 
> > ">").  Mutt should be able to easily do that, right?  -- Blue
> > skies...  Todd | Get a bigger hammer!  | ...file transfer by email
> > is evil.  | | http://www.mrball.net | NANOG | |
> > http://faq.mrball.net | |
> 
> Sorry, no idea.  Not a mutt user -- I'm far too happy with MH and
> exmh.

Since we're talking  about quoting and such, is it  emacs that's responsible
for that horrible merging of lines that weren't a paragraph, like you did to
Todd's mail  (mangling the signature  which you probably could  strip easily
then)?

Marc
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