Re: format=flowed

[Simon Josefsson]

Michael Herman <michael@thehermans.org> writes:

> There has been a pretty heated discussion going on regarding
> format=flowed with Mutt and VIM.  I am curious about how this works in
> Emacs.  It seems that Mutt is agnostic regarding the format of mail
> and gets the encoding information from the editor used.
>
> I have read the emacs manual and the MIME section as well.  From what
> I have read, if I enable enriched-mode, it will create e-mail as
> format=flowed which it does.  
>
> However, it still seems to set a hard line-feed at column 70.  Is this
> the way it is supposed to work?

On the wire, each line should be 79 characters or less.  During
display, it should adapt to your emacs screen size at the time of
rendering (in Gnus).