Re: [Nmh-workers] Features for 1.6

[norm]

Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
>>>The only people I've found who this doesn't work for is Norm and Lyndon;
>>>both of their emails have lines >78 characters, but they're not encoded
>>
>>That's not very important to me. I could change it easily.
>
>Hope it didn't come across like I was picking on you ... you had explained
>(from what I remember) that a correspondent of yours complained that your
>emails looked "funny", so you eventually settled on just making your
>paragraphs one long line.  That's not necessarily even a wrong thing for
>you to do; I was just showing it as an example of where the obvious thing
>to do is wrong.  If there are other cases where MUAs send text/plain parts
>with long lines that are NOT encoded, I'd like to hear about them.
>
>(It does occur to me, however, that if you set automimeproc to 1 in your
>mh_profile then all of your emails would be encoded as q-p and they should
>show up properly for everyone).

Rather than risk irreversible injury to my 81 year old brain, trying to
understand what q-p means and what buildmimeproc does, I will revert.

But there is a small problem. My standard editor width is not 78 columns, but 80
columns. So I will have to introduce an option into my editor to make the window
width 78 columns (actually, I'll make it 77 columns to have a bit of slop). I
wonder what I should name that option. Said differently where and how did you 
get
that number,78 columns? I suppose it's some kind of standard?

    Norman Shapiro