I've received a couple of complaints from mutt users that my emails are't hard-wrapped at less than 80 characters. In mutt, display seems fine, as mutt's pager wraps for display fine. However, when replying, it quotes by sticking '>' in front of a whole paragraph without wrapping it (i.e. leaving it as one long line). Similarly, when forwarding the text is included without being re-flowed. It seemed to me that 'set text_flowed=yes' should have caused mutt to hard-wrap text, but it's not activated when composing a reply or a forward. There's plenty of code already in mutt which can re-flow text well, however it's only invoked if the message being replied to/forwarded has 'flowed' in its MIME Content-Type. The patch to follow causes mutt to re-flow text when composing replies also if 'text_flowed=yes' is set even if the content type of the original message doesn't specify flowed.
Created attachment 63465 [details, diff] Allows option text_flowed to cause mutt to reflow replies and forwards
I'd rather not include this at the distribution level because I'm concerned it might have effects that we don't want. If the patch is correct and desirable, the mutt maintainers should be willing to take it upstream. Please contact them about it.
