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The trick is that you have to use an email client that will accept an external editor, which in turn can format paragraphs. I am obsessive about formatting ema

The trick is that you have to use an email client that will accept an external editor, which in turn can format paragraphs. I am obsessive about formatting emails, and the `par' formatter is the only one I've encountered that can intelligently work with indentation and quoting characters: http://www.nicemice.net/par/ http://www.nicemice.net/par/ Vim has a basic formatter, and I'm not familiar with Emacs' tool, but I'll bet it's not as good as par. EDIT: Your point about reading plain-text email on mobile devices is very true, of course.

jacobsenscott 4y ago
If by "formatting paragraphs" you mean putting line breaks in paragraphs, that's a losing battle. There is always a screen size where that's broken. There should be no line breaks, and viewer should wrap the text as needed. This is what HTML renderers are great at. Basically HTML is perfect for email, and the only reason plain text email exists is that it was invented before html.