From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 11:59:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C8214C4A for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12EGON-000HbA-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:45:11 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12EGON-0001BB-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:45:11 +0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:45:11 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors question #2 Message-ID: <20000128184511.A4390@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000126154230.D883@hades.hell.gr> <87g0vitxrx.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <87g0vitxrx.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arcady Genkin wrote: > I would recommend you have a look at gnus. Not only does it quote > decently, but it can also re-format badly formatted messages > (automatically, if you want), keeping the citation levels (and do a > thousand other useful things). any mailer+editor combination can do this (mutt+vim being the best ;-) if you pipe your mail (or parts of it) through 'par', from the ports. 'fmt' in the base system does an OK job sometimes, but doesn't keep the quote level, IIRC. Handy for mail from those lusers who think sending mail in HTML with no line breaks is a Good Thing. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message