Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:17:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make arch.c buf.c compat.c cond.c dir.c for.c hash.c job.c main.c make.c parse.c str.c suff.c targ.c util.c var.c Message-ID: <200007120617.XAA00682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:54:26 %2B0930." <20000712115426.N29642@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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> > And if you've got a good way of working out how to wrap quoted text, = go > > ahead and fill the rest of us in on it. 8) > = > Emacs has a line wrap macro which understands quoted text. Taking > Fred's paragraph above, it makes this out of it: > = > >>> I can try to wrap, but I'd have to do so by hand. But wrapping > >>> text at the sender's end is not the right thing. Your mail client > >>> is broken, as it should wrap for you. You might try fixing that > >>> rather than expecting everyone to hard-wrap text for you. Some of > >>> us like letting our clients wrap the text for us as we change the > >>> window size. > = > That's m-q when running in letter mode (I think). Yeah, I used to use it. It does disastrous things with nonstandard or = broken nested quoting. The *only* right thing to do is display the = message *as*the*sender*formatted*it*. No other medium assumes that the *reader* makes the formatting decisions = - markup languages like HTML are designed for express purpose of allowing= = the *writer* to distinguish between the formatting elements that must be = under writer control and those that the reader can adjust. -- = =2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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