Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:39:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wilfredo_S=E1nchez?= <wsanchez@apple.com>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> 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: <20000712173955.Y30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000712091710.B10785@cons.org> References: <200007120145.SAA19968@scv1.apple.com> <20000712122903.B30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000712091710.B10785@cons.org>
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[moved to -chat before the committers get uppity] On Wednesday, 12 July 2000 at 9:17:10 +0200, Martin Cracauer wrote: > 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 That's one of the reasons to 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. I do exactly the same thing. I have a 120 character wide window for the same reasons, but normal text that wide is a real pain. 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 freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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