On 2017-02-19 at 15:33, Erik Christiansen wrote: > As it is the long established email standard that lines be 72 characters > to allow a couple of levels of "> " quoting in replies, without the need > to reflow [...]
As a sidenote, RFC 5322 specifies the recommended maximal line length with 78 characters [1, section 2.1.1]. Personally, I think using 72 characters to account for later "> " is a bit arbitrary because you don't know a priori how many times your message will be quoted. Although I'd argue that so many quote levels are often useless, one has to deal with the fact that people will do so, hence I think text reflow is fine if needed. Vim users might want to set colorcolumn=78 [1]https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt
