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Re: Unexpected fill-paragraph behaviour in message-mode


From: Ryan Kavanagh
Subject: Re: Unexpected fill-paragraph behaviour in message-mode
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:54:35 -0500

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 05:20:42PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> I use rarely Mutt but for those cases I have defined a derived major
> mode from message-mode. See the code below.

Thank you for this code snippet. It is very helpful and I will use some
variant of it.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You could try that, but my response will be that message-mode is not
> meant for this job.  It is a mode for composing email that is intended
> to be sent by Emacs MUA, not for editing arbitrary text.

Thanks for this clarification. Having used message-mode to compose
emails in the past, I mistakenly assumed it could be used to compose
emails for non-emacs MUAs.

Best wishes,
Ryan

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