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Re: How to disable line-wrapping in KMail?
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fred.k |
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Re: How to disable line-wrapping in KMail? |
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Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:59:49 +0900 |
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Hi everyone,
On 2020/07/23 2:21, bill-auger wrote:
because people tend to read better with short lines, around 60-80
characters maximum,
Right. I prefer those line lengths, too.
My belief is that mailers (I use thunderbird) do the heavy lifting when
it comes to wrapping lines. Human senders/readers do not have to, and
should not have to, break and wrap any lines. If you do, you screwed up
your mailer formatting algorithm.
My mail composer breaks lines at about 70-80 bytes, put a trailing space
(0x20) before sending to SMTP. When I place a 'return' at the end of a
paragraph, then it'd be sent without trailing space character. The
receiving mailer put all those space-trailed lines into a long one-line
paragraph, and then wraps-around to fit into a window at word breaks.
Suggestions are welcome if somebody know where these processes are
documented. I was once curious about the 'escape sequences' that a plain
text mail can be accentuated by asterisks *bold* , slashes /italic/ ,
underscores _whatever_ ,
a line with two hyphens (and space) only to precede 'signature' block,
things like that.
--
Fred