21 May
2012
21 May
'12
9:19 p.m.
At 08:03 PM 5/21/2012, you wrote:
On 22 May 2012 01:44, Dave McGuire <mcguire at
neurotica.com> wrote:
Yow! This is not the world-wide web. The formatting of text is up to
the person doing the typing. There are accepted conventions for how
this works, and they work for everyone (except apparently you).
I am NOT trying to start an argument here, but it is my opinion that
you're trying to treat email as something that it isn't.
I'm not trying to treat email like anything.
Hard line-wrapped text is broken and cannot be reflowed.
Darn right. I've gotten so used to wasting half
the width of my mail client that I'd actually
only use the leftmost 48% of my display, if it
wasn't for the fact that I have icons and macros
with icons attached to them that take up more
like 90% of the width. I dislike multiple rows of icons.
For me, the first line of the paragraph above
soft-breaks at the I in "fact that I".
In other words, many email programs are broken
w/r/t line breaks and I get lines with hard
breaks from most people, wasting half my display.
On 05/21/2012 08:03 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>> [nit: please consider hitting RETURN every 75 chars or so]
>>>
>>> Please don't. Hard line-wrap has been a
PITA since the 1960s and
still is.
How, exactly, is it a PITA?
Because hard-wrapped text won't reflow, so if you resize your email
window - or use a wider terminal if you're that way inclined - it
stays stuck in a narrow strip down the left hand edge of your screen.
By the same token, use a narrower window, or simply increase the font
size, and it breaks into pieces, making it particularly unfair and
unfriendly for people with low vision or other eyesight problems. This is a fact; it is not open to debate. It is the
case, it always
has been the case.
Doing that deliberately is just *rude*, and any email client that
can't line-wrap text is so very very broken that it is pathetic. That
would have been intolerable when I started out with email in 1985; I
cannot believe *any* modern MUA is that defective.
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