Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:45:46 -0700 From: Wilfredo S=?iso-8859-1?q?=E1?=nchez <wsanchez@apple.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> 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: <200007120145.SAA19968@scv1.apple.com>
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Bill: > >=46rom rfc 1855:=20 > =20 > - Don't run off the end of a line and simply let the terminal = wrap;=20 > use a Carriage Return (CR) at the end of the line. Also, don't=20= > assume your screen size is the same as everyone else's. A good=20= > rule of thumb is to write out no more than 70 characters...=20 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. Mike: > And if you've got a good way of working out how to wrap quoted text, = go=20 > ahead and fill the rest of us in on it. 8) Actually, my mail app will hard-wrap lines when replying to plain-text mail and doing the prefix-with-quote-marker thing. So wrap-when-quoting I buy, but only because there are no standard quoting delimiters in plaintext mail. If there were, one could be more clever. I'll try to wrap my mail. You big babies. :-) -Fred Wilfredo S=E1nchez, wsanchez@apple.com Open Source Engineering Lead Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating System Group 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 94086, 408.974-5174 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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