Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

[Aaron Janse]

lel said:
> Yes, this is exactly what I was trying to say.

Ahaha, same here. Thank you, solderpunk, for hearing us out. Sorry for not
being so explicit!

> then defining special
> line types for headings, etc. doesn't actually add any extra burden on
> simple clients.  It's basically a question of how many cases you want
> to handle in a switch statement...

This is definitely a big appeal for me. Fancy clients could also wrap
quote blocks by putting a greater-than sign on the beginning of each
wrapped line, without requiring simple clients to do the same :-)

> even bare minimal clients need to be able to wrap long lines to result
> in readability.

In order to deal with wide clients, yes. But if we did hard wrapping, we'd
have to do the exact same thing (but plus reflowing) on narrow clients
anyway.

> I don't think it's too high. I just wrote up an awful implementation in 
> the most naive way possible and it came out ~30 lines

Plus, most systems have bash, so worst case, someone either calls `fmt`/`par`
from the client source code or pipes their client output into `fmt`/`par`.

> This is the happiest I've been to see an email in a while honestly lol

Definitely. Unless there is a problem I'm not seeing, this sounds very
exciting!

Cheers!