Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:54:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wilfredo_S=E1nchez?= <wsanchez@apple.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org 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: <20000712115426.N29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200007120129.SAA00936@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <20000711211706.P4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200007120129.SAA00936@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 18:29:09 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 05:48:34PM -0700, Wilfredo Sánchez wrote: >>>> [Please format paragraphs with somewhat less than 520 columns.] >>> >>> I can try to wrap, but I'd have to do so by hand. But wrapping text at >>> the sender's end is not the right thing. Your mail client is broken, as >>> it should wrap for you. You might try fixing that rather than expecting >>> everyone to hard-wrap text for you. Some of us like letting our clients >>> wrap the text for us as we change the window size. >> >>> 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... > > And if you've got a good way of working out how to wrap quoted text, go > ahead and fill the rest of us in on it. 8) Emacs has a line wrap macro which understands quoted text. Taking Fred's paragraph above, it makes this out of it: >>> I can try to wrap, but I'd have to do so by hand. But wrapping >>> text at the sender's end is not the right thing. Your mail client >>> is broken, as it should wrap for you. You might try fixing that >>> rather than expecting everyone to hard-wrap text for you. Some of >>> us like letting our clients wrap the text for us as we change the >>> window size. That's m-q when running in letter mode (I think). 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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