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Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")
On Jul 8 18:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:56:49PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >I've already explained why I don't think format=flowed is appropriate
> >for this list (in particular, long command lines will also be wrapped
> >if it ever were to be accepted). In any case, the definitive opinion
> >will be that of CGF, and if he says that he doesn't care one way or
> >another, then my opinion will be just that -- an opinion, and not a
> >list custom of any sort.
>
> Well, since you asked, let me put it this way: I would never go out of
> my way to send a note specifically telling someone to wrap their text.
> My preference, however, would be to see some white space on the right
> side of my mail reading window which is about 132 columns in width. I,
> personally, try to format my email to fit within 80 columns and when I
> reply to a message I usually reformat it to the same width. It is
> my preference to see wrapping of text in messages to the cygwin lists.
>
> I know all of the yadda yadda obvious stuff about "your preference" "my
> preference" "modern mail readers", etc. However, it has been a
> convention to wrap email to somewhere around 80 columns (especially in
> technical forums) for years and, personally, when I see email from
> someone which just goes on forever without line breaks my first thought
> is "probably clueless".
>
> I don't know what Corinna's preferences are here but I wouldn't be
> surprised if she agreed with the above sentiments. Obviously some
Sounds perfectly fine to me.
My mail reader is no "modern" mail reader and I'm not interested to use
one since I'm old-fashioned enough to dislike the mouse. So my mail reader
is running in an 80 column window. Unwrapped mails and weird line breaks
drop my attention span to read the whole posting to a minimum.
Corinna
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