Flowed text

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On 2020-06-14 04:06, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

>> Any MUA that arbitrarily reformats text is too smart for its own 
>> good and fundamentally broken in a critical way.
> 
> Yesno!
> 
> The MUA could wrap the lines on demand, so long lines for code are 
> not wrapped by default.

Or a message could contain information about whether lines should be 
filled and word-wrapped. Like this message you're reading, for example. 
It's text/plain format=flowed (RFC 3676). The English text is marked to 
be filled and word-wrapped on display. The C program at the end is not.

Unfortunately, not many mail readers implement text/plain format=flowed. 
Thunderbird does; Mutt has partial support; an obscure mail reader named 
Trojita does. There may be others I don't know about.

Here's a picture of how Thunderbird displays this message: 
<http://www.panix.com/~kh/tmp/msg.png>


#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{
     for (;;)
     {
         printf("Yes!\n");
         printf("No!\n");
     }
     return 0;
}