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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:17:28 +0000
From:      Mark Robert Vaughan Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anthony Perkins <anthony@acperkins.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Patch: Add option to fmt to ignore email reply lines
Message-ID:  <A7FFBF26-3573-4DAC-861C-7D2C8CA21B2E@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131126121050.GC73645@ul9n>
References:  <20131125125430.GC67451@ul9n> <E05FEFD7-02C5-461F-A977-4743FB34A9DB@FreeBSD.org> <20131126121050.GC73645@ul9n>

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On 26 Nov 2013, at 12:10, Anthony Perkins <anthony@acperkins.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:58:12PM +0000, Mark Robert Vaughan Murray
> wrote:
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.

Not true. In fact par is rather good at preserving changing indent =
levels.
Its not perfect, but its darn good.

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

Yes please!

M
--=20
Mark R V Murray


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