Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:58:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, wsanchez@apple.com Subject: Wrapping mail (was: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make arch.c buf.c compat.c cond.c di) Message-ID: <20000713085857.D3560@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000712102840.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <396CA4E7.24D3C35B@newsguy.com> <XFMail.000712102840.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday, 12 July 2000 at 10:28:40 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 12-Jul-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >> Wilfredo S?nchez 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. >> >> What's your reader doing wrapping lines? It should cut them at the >> margin and let you scroll horizontally. > > Ahem. Geez. I use a _real_ mail client which adds newlines to my > outgoing mail and wraps incoming mail for me if needed (all > togglable of course). What ever happened to the notion of trying to > accept anything you get and trying to send content that will work > everywhere? I thought that was kind of a basic principle in > networking software? As opposed to insisting that there is only One > True Way(tm) for mail? I've mentioned this earlier: there are different kinds of text. Text such as this should be wrapped round about 70 characters. Tabular output, log messages and such should *not* be wrapped, because that's not the normal way they appear. Instead, I have a window with 120 characters which fits nicely onto the screen and allows me to view most such messages without wrapping. When I receive one-line-per-paragraph messages, they wrap OK (apart from an irritating reverse-video + sign at the beginning of the continuations), but they're 120 characters wide. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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