On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:31:20PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> ...and then Jim Breton said...
> % Do people generally find it annoying if I don't use line wrap in my editor
>
> Actually, yes. It's only because everyone here is so polite that you
> haven't been flamed for it already, but it's a pretty big peeve.
>
> Oh, wait; this is the mutt-users list. I guess folks have just been too
> busy ;-)
There's one more reason: mutt and vim (and I think this is the most
common setup for people on this list; substitute vim with any other
decent editor) can handle long lines nicely. Both wrap them when
displaying and vim allows to easily and correctly wrap quoted text.
If people used less advanced mailers, Jim would already be flamed to
death. I still remember the times when I used a DOS-based mailer (Demos
Mail for UUCP) and how I felt about scrolling left and right single
column at a time (and that means hundreds of keypresses at 30 cps
autorepeat rate) when someone composed a message using Microsoft LookOut.
Marius Gedminas
--
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that
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-- Erwin Knoll
