From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 12 16:29:15 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A93737B75A; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:29:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA03844; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:58:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:58:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Baldwin Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith , Bill Fumerola , 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> References: <396CA4E7.24D3C35B@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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