mail_indenter : pretty indentation for e-mail replying
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Mauro Sauco |
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This tiny script (my first one) can convert this:
On 2006/10/23@16:47, <Mauro, Sauco> wrote:
> This is a post with a very long text without wrapping of text that can go on and on forever and its very annoying because it will make the reply almost impossible to understand.
> This is another very long line that looks very ugly because some e-mail clients will wrap it automatically but will not consider the indentation mark.
> I love inline replaying because:
> 1. Inline posting creates a natural, chronological ordering to each segment of the discussion stored within a message.
> 2. Inline posting promotes the practice of trimming quoted text to prevent signature blocks, free-mail-service ads, and corporate disclaimers piling up in a growing useless "tail" at the end.
> 3. nline posting doesn't require the poster to recap each issue being addressed, as comments can be made point-for-point against the original message, making for a more structured, disciplined and unambiguous reply.
Into this:
On 2006/10/23@16:47, <Mauro, Sauco> wrote:
Mauro> This is a post with a very long text without wrapping of text
Mauro> that can go on and on forever and its very annoying because it
Mauro> will make the replay almost impossible to understand. This is
Then you can replay inline like this.
Mauro> another very long line that looks very ugly because some e-mail
Mauro> clients will wrap it automatically but will not consider the
Mauro> indentation mark. I love inline replaying because: 1. Inline
Or like this.
Mauro> posting creates a natural, chronological ordering to each
Mauro> segment of the discussion stored within a message. 2. Inline
Mauro> posting promotes the practice of trimming quoted text to
Mauro> prevent signature blocks, free-mail-service ads, and corporate
Mauro> disclaimers piling up in a growing useless "tail" at the end.
I agree !
Mauro> 3. nline posting doesn't require the poster to recap each issue
Mauro> being addressed, as comments can be made point-for-point
Mauro> against the original message, making for a more structured,
Mauro> disciplined and unambiguous reply.
In case you didn't notice, the text is now wrapped at 72 and indented with the recipients name.
How you like it ?
Plese feel free to drop me an e-mail with questions, suggestions, etc.
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You can source it like this:
vim -c 'source mail_indenter.vim'
Or within Vim like this:
:source mail_indenter.vim
In .muttrc like this:
set editor="vim -f +8 -c 'source mail_indenter.vim' "
Or copy it to ~/.vim/plugin/
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