From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 14:26:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.islandtransit.org [208.240.196.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0601D37B599 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 14:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.homenet [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id A4EDA5CE0748; Sat, 08 Apr 2000 14:30:21 -0700 From: Chip To: Otter Subject: Re: Line Wrapping (Was: Re: Setting up a Webserver) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 14:23:56 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38EEF473.7F79CC66@otter.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00040814282400.05163@chip.homenet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Otter wrote: > Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > [...] > > > >> > > > >> Please wrap lines at 70 characters. > > > > > > > > Why not 80? A normal Terminal (I'm currently on a VT220) has got 80 > > > > Chars/Line I think. But that's OT now. > > > > > > 70 allows a few levels of ">" quote characters without lines being too > > > long for an 80 character terminal. But wrapping at 80 is still better > > > than not wrapping at all. > > > > But why wrap the lines? All programs do that automatically, I think. > > I'm using pine for my mails, and it does this automatically. > > > > But please correct me, if I'm wrong. > > > > Regards, > > Freddy > > Freddy, > You're wrong. I'm using Netscape mail. If the sender doesn't set the > lines to wrap then it goes off the screen and i have to follow the > text out there... if I'm interested in reading it. For those with text > mail apps, it's even more of a pain in the ass. With text, you have to > chase each line out there. It's not folks being picky. Consider it as > a gesture of them pointing you in the direction of what's understood > as common courtesy. > Regards, > Otter > p.s. in case you're wondering, mine's set to 70 Why not turn on line wrapping in Netscape? It's in Edit/Preferences/ Mail&Newsgroups/Messages. Allows you to specify the column to wrap the lines. Not that I use Netscape mail, I use KMail and it also does line wrapping at whatever column you specify. -- Chip www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems ***** Look past your Windoze and experience something New! ***** Visit my web site - Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message