Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

[Eduardo Chappa <chappa at math dot washington dot edu>]

*** Christopher Faylor (ufocgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com.tv)...:

:) On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote:
:) >I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't 
:) >hard.
:) 
:) >On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
:) >>Finally, you (Igor) are right that we are not going to change the 
:) >>sourceware.org software to wrap in any other fashion than it does 
:) >>now.
:) 
:) sourceware.org, the home of cygwin.com, is a technical site.  The 
:) mailing lists that it sponsors are for technical discussions.
:) 
:) In these discussions, the formatting of messages could conceivably 
:) actually *mean something*.  It's entirely possible that someone meant 
:) to use 997 characters in one of the lines of their message to 
:) illustrate a point or even to provide a patch.

If someone sends a 997 characters line, I will see it wrapped in my e-mail 
program, 12 times wrapped. It will not be cut at the width of the screen. 
That's very helpful in my opinion.

If someone provides a patch and I were to cut and paste that patch, I 
would call myself crazy, I would normally save the patch to a file 
directly, so this is not an issue.

On the other hand, just to mention something, instead of saying "NO, it 
won't happen", maybe you may want to experiment on adding <BR> at the end 
of each line, or adding <P> instead of having empty lines, or things like 
that. Probably does not work out of the box, but it probably can be tuned
to fit most messages, if not all.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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