Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:17:10 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wilfredo_S=E1nchez?= <wsanchez@apple.com>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: Email format (was: 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: <20000712091710.B10785@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20000712122903.B30262@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:29:03PM %2B0930 References: <200007120145.SAA19968@scv1.apple.com> <20000712122903.B30262@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In <20000712122903.B30262@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 18:45:46 -0700, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > > Bill: > >>> From rfc 1855: > >> > >> - Don't run off the end of a line and simply let the terminal wrap; > >> use a Carriage Return (CR) at the end of the line. Also, don't > >> assume your screen size is the same as everyone else's. A good > >> rule of thumb is to write out no more than 70 characters... > > > > Sorry, don't buy it. I write a paragraph. How it's presented to you > > should be the job of your reader, not the sender. My reader deals just > > fine with long lines. In fact, if you wrap to 70, and I have a window > > only 50 wide, your wrapping is quite annoying, because I then get all of > > these newlines in mid-line for no good reason. Assuming everyone has an > > 80-wide display is bogus, or at least anachronistic. > > This doesn't have anything to do with memories of punched cards, if > that's what you're saying. It relates to the restrictions of the > human eye. Note that book layouts pretty much adhere to the 70 > character recommendation. Newspapers divide the text into columns > because the full width would be unpleasant to read. It's hard to insert the '>' in quotes when we don't agree on a line length and I often have a > 80 chars window for mail reading in case long lines that must not be wrapped (tables) appear, but I don't want to have normal mail messages that wide, it's harder to jump to the next lines then. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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