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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:15:35 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wilfredo_S=E1nchez?= <wsanchez@apple.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, 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:  <200007121615.KAA12449@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <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:

It doesn't work if people use different quoting characters.  (I've been
using XEmacs + VM for reading email for almost 5 years now, so I have a
bit of experience with it. :)

80 characters is considered the de-facto standard screen width for
reading email, and has been for well over 15 years.



Nate


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