GNU bug report logs - #58145
28.1; Description errors in Emacs's info manual for Gnus key bindings

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark Harig <idirectscm <at> aim.com>
Cc: 58145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58145: Formatting of lines in this report.
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:08:43 +0300

> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:02:06 +0000 (UTC)
> From:  Mark Harig via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> The display of this report at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145 appears to omit many
> newline characters that were in the original mail/report.  Is this expected, or is there something that can be
> done to prevent this?  (Thank you for any help that can prevent this in future reports.)
> 
> The original formatting (more readable) of the report can be seen by clicking on the "Message part 2" link at
> the bottom of https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145.

Your message included a text/plain part (which was in quoted-printable
encoding), and a text/html part.  The latter displays as you'd like,
but the former is what you see on debbugs.  The reason is that the MUA
you are using produces strange EOL sequences, which have no indication
of a newline: NBSP SPC NBSP.  You can clearly see that if you click
the "mbox" link on the message header line, which leads to this:

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58145;mbox=yes;msg=5

Download the mbox file and examine it, and you will see what I
describe above.

So I think the problem is with the configuration of your MUA.

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