From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 6 15:56: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DEB37C1B6 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:56:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12dJYS-0006c8-00; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:11:08 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12dJYS-000Jpu-00; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:11:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:11:08 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: David Nixon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Attachments request -OOOOOPS Message-ID: <20000406221108.A4744@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Nixon wrote: > Oh, a pissing contest. Yes, you do seem to have started one, unfornately. Do try not to do it again. > Inserting hard carriage returns at every 80 characters (right hand > margin) is neither a standard nor a requirement. Sigh. Who said it was either? It's just common sense. Shorter lines are easier to read. Do you think newspapers print their articles in multiple columns just for fun? Anyway, read this extract from RFC 1855 and shut up: - 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, and no more than 12 lines (since you're using a split screen). Is that good enough? > Be kind enough to explain to me why vi has set as a default NOT to > insert carriage returns at the right margin. Vi is used for things other than writing mail, did that ever occur to you? Line wrapping in configuration files and such is a pain. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message