OT: HTML and email styles (was Re: Detecting End-of-File using READLINE command)

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>With neither thought nor caution, Bill Campbell blurted:
...
>> I have similar problems with plain text e-mail where the writer's MUA has a
>> wide screen, and it generates a bad case of long/shortitis when viewed in
>> my 80x25 mutt window.  At least with plain text, I can pipe these through
>> the ``fmt'' program to clean up the message so it's readable.
>
>I just hate the M$ (and Motif's textarea widgets do it too) standard of a
>single ^M as the paragraph break rather than a newline or \r\n, or even
>\n\r in the Mac world.  You get these damned run-on lines that comprise an
>entire paragraph.  One of the coolest things JPR ever did was introduce me
>to par--second coolest to introducing me to mutt.  :)  But really, I hate
>that in HTML form input as well.  It's -highly- annoying.
>
>And ever need to look at someone's HTML source, fire up your browser, load
>the page, hit View Source, and you get these lines that go on like nine
>miles side to side?  I tend to spontaneously combust when I see that.

One of the things I love about Opera is that I have it set to
open up mutt in an xterm with the source.  That makes it very
easy for me to find things (not to mention snarfing tricks :-).

>Oh, and I was looking somewhere the other day and saw there is a Windows
>port of mutt now that -doesn't- need Cygwin.  

I wouldn't know as I don't Do Windows.  When I want a GUI Mailer or a
browser that really deals well with flash and other fancy junk, I do it
under OS X on my G4.

Bill
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