Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 02:03:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: wsanchez@apple.com Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <396CA4E7.24D3C35B@newsguy.com> References: <200007120145.SAA19968@scv1.apple.com>
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Wilfredo Sánchez 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. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org <jkh> _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck." <EE> jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? <jkh> EE: OK, I made that part up. <jkh> EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce initially dictated it to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the messagehelp
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