From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 22:52: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.islandtransit.org [208.240.196.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D8237B5EB for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id AE58148707AC; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:55:36 -0700 From: chip To: Giorgos Keramidas , chip@wiegand.org, otter@otter.cc Subject: Re: Line Wrapping (Was: Re: Setting up a Webserver) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:48:53 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004101243.PAA16714@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041022532200.00301@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > From: Chip > > > > > > But why wrap the lines? All programs do that automatically, I think. > > > > I'm using pine for my mails, and it does this automatically. > > > > Why not turn on line wrapping in Netscape? It's in Edit/Preferences/ > > Mail&Newsgroups/Messages. Allows you to specify the column to wrap the > > lines. Not that I use Netscape mail, I use KMail and it also does line > > wrapping at whatever column you specify. > > Interesting how the original question got asked in the reverse manner, > after only two posts. Actually, Chip, everyone's on your side. > Wrapping is not only evil, but some times it is a necessity. > > When I'm reading mail on a 132x?? terminal, if wrapping was not used, I > have to chase around lines that span more than 100 columns, and it can > get tiring if you do it all the time. > > Ciao, > Giorgos. It got turned around quite quickly, then when some parts are snipped things get misunderstood even more. I'm not sure I ever said anything like wrapping being evil, my paragraph is the second one above about turning wrapping on in netscape. I use KMail and have wrapping turned on at 70 columns, and much appreciate if others would also use wrapping. I too dislike chasing long lines that if printed would probably go several feet across the room. :-) Anyway, I think this is probably enought of this stuff in this group. Maybe it will come to an end soon? -- Chip www.wiegand.org ***** Visit my web site - Alternative Operating Systems - MS Windows isn't the only OS in town. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message