[Mailman-Users] regexp help (OT: Edit and Mail)

[Chr. von Stuckrad]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, Savoy, Jim wrote:

> >Depending on the options set in vi, it can do horrible things to
> indentation when you paste things in :(

:-) seen that!  Therefore modern vims have :set paste<enter>
and as long as you not 'set nopaste' *no* munging of pastes will be
done! I'm needing/using that all the time, I might even put it
into my '.vimrc' and make it default ...

> I just looked at your original posting (using Outlook) and line 3 is
> not indented, but rather continuous from line 2, and the other indents
> are in columns 5 and 9 (not 4 and 8). I shall try viewing it with other
> mail clients, just for kicks.

'outlook' is a <insert favorite expletive here> for programmers.
By Default it *reformats* everything to 'Paragraphs' of the form:
- everything NOT split by an empty line is 'supposed to be a useless
linebreak for mailtransfer', then it collects all those lines and
reformats the resulting words with single whitespaces to window-size.
- an empty line means 'paragraph end', so itself may vanish anyway
only the linebreak in a paragraph stays.

It's like Microsoft(office)Word's view of Text and you are supposed
to write html or rtf anyway :-)

If hints(warnings, whatever) are on, you'll see a line above your
munged mail, saying it removed useless newlines, and by clicking
it you can get them back. 

Stucki