On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap. > > When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes > > are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend and he told me > > that it takes 78 signs for him. > > Is there a standard for how many signs it should take to do an automatic > > line wrap? > > The only thing that might come close to a standard would be this: > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt > > - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line > with a carriage return. > > but 72 is a common value used by several established editors (like > (g)vim). > > Kind regards, > Andrei
I wonder if there's a valid reason to e.g. use 78 characters instead. The pen friend using Alpin, does use braille. Perhaps the braille gear has got 78 elements. I'll ask him. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1345919825.1234.88.camel@localhost.localdomain
