Patch: Add option to fmt to ignore email reply lines

Anthony Perkins anthony at acperkins.com
Tue Nov 26 12:26:22 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:58:12PM +0000, Mark Robert Vaughan Murray
wrote:
>
> You may want to extend your idea a bit and do what par (ports/textproc/par)
> does. This is a paragraph reformatter that takes the quoting into account,
> replacing it after the paragraph wrapping.

I did consider doing this but decided against it on the basis that
the incoming mail from the previous sender was unpredictable.  If
it included, for example, a list of a few short sentences or bullet
points these would all be combined into one long paragraph in the
reply.

If others also feel this would be desirable I will look at implementing
it with an updated patch.

Many thanks,

Anthony


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