On 01/03/2025 01:30, tho...@goirand.fr wrote:
On Feb 27, 2025 12:02, Blair Noctis <n...@debian.org> wrote:actually struggle to read the hard-wrapped-at-80-then-wrapped-again text.The standard for email is 74 chars, not 80...
It's a rant. The actual number didn't matter. But then again, I thought it's 80, you said it's 74 in "the standard", someone said it's 78 in RFC2822, and someone else said, quote:
You will see my text in *this* mail wrapped at column 72
Well. I used to wrap my emails at 80, didn't seem to trigger rants about "breaking the standard". I don't think anyone actually checks the wrapping length with a ruler, but rather, that text is wrapped, and at "about the right length". (Do you really notice the difference between wrapping at 74/80?) So the status quo is we all have different ideas about wrapping and to wrap at what length, use different software that handle it differently and configure the software differently, but then aren't actually strict when it comes to actually reading the wrapped text. To wrap or not to wrap, that's the problem. Or really, to wrap at (some fixed length) vs to wrap at (width of the window/control/view that contains the text, or if the software is capable enough, a customizable width). It's also a preference, not a hard rule, so I see no end in this debate, just like spaces vs tabs, even though I believe that not to wrap, just like tabs, gives the receiving end more freedom. FWIW, I've enabled format=flowed after learning it in this thread, hopefully also giving those who would rather wrap some freedom (as to let it reflow, which effectively means to wrap, or not). -- Sdrager, Blair Noctis
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