[599] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: barnowl edit:maxwrapcols should default to 70
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Thu Oct 29 18:07:48 2009
Resent-From: nelhage@mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 19:41:15 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Chris Lesniewski-Laas <ctl@mit.edu>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>, dirty-owl-hackers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070503215632.GD9510@multics.mit.edu>
asedeno's style, which I also use, does this as well, and there are
plans (and I believe Sam recently committed code towards this end), to
do word-wrapping generically, based on a user-defined filter, and
probably manually toggleable per-message.
- Nelson
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:56:33PM -0400, Chris Lesniewski-Laas wrote:
> I don't disagree, but here's an additional idea that might be helpful. My owl
> message formatter takes all incoming messages and re-wraps them to my current
> terminal width. (I view code snippets with 'M'.) This also sidesteps your
> problem since it doesn't matter to me how wide the sender's terminal is.
>
> If there's sufficient interest, I could look in to merging my config into the
> barnowl source.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
