On 25/08/12 20:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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 > > IIRC you have to keep room for quotation characters, thus '> ' for one level. THen yu get to the historical 80 characters long line.
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