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Re: [Nmh-workers] handling of long header lines by pick (bug #15215)
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] handling of long header lines by pick (bug #15215) |
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Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:50:45 -0500 |
>The bug notes that leaving all of the leading whitespace on
>continuation lines intact is inconsistent with what mh-format
>does, which is to collapse into a single space.
mh-format is a bit ... weird, and TECHNICALLY it only does that on (most)
string output. I don't think what we do there should necessarily apply
in pick.
>But I think we
>should leave this as-is in pick. It's consistent with its man
>page and the RFC, I think. And it's easy enough to work around
>with a regexp, as noted in the Debian bug. Thoughts?
Fine with me.
--Ken