| Re: "wordwrap" in messages sent to mailman list [message #26656 is a reply to message #26647] |
Sat, 30 July 2005 18:53   |
ligesh
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| tymp wrote on Fri, 29 July 2005 17:30 |
As to 80 char wrapping: sure, we're enslaved to history, but... the design freaks have a point about line-length affecting readability. Your eye just gets lost past a certain line-length. And, the printed page gives you about 80 chars across in a readable font-size.
cheers.
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That "comfortable to the eye limit" is actually 65 chars. And anyway, how the wrapping should be done is the perogative of the final display software. For instance, what will happen in a PDA which has only 40chars? Or even in a normal terminal itself, there are situatins where the display screen is less than 80char - sometime i split the screen midway into two; the single line paragraph will work in all situations.
I am not arguing for sentences spannign long distances horizontally, but just that paragraphs should be single line. And it is the duty of the final display software to wrap it around.
The 80 char instanity is basically owing to emacs still lacking a soft word wrap. And like all gnu enthuisiasts, now they want to turn this bug into a feature. You know like making the darkness as the standard. i have seen this in the open source world quite a lot of times.
Problem: linux is not very userfriendly:
Answer: That is actually Good as it will force people into learning computers in detail.
Problem: Both Kde and Gnome Suck (I use fvwm btw).
Answer: Yeah so what, u got choice, which is more important. (they don't understand the age old maxim that there is no choice among rotten apples.)
I guess it is a human nature after all, to claim that the drawbacks are all actually blessings in disguise. And this 80 char madness is just another one of the insanities. It is sort of like the Big Brother's propaganda in 1984.
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