22 May
2012
22 May
'12
4:52 a.m.
* Tom <a50mhzham at gmail.com> [120522 00:32]:
At 08:32 PM 5/21/2012, you wrote:
Do you manually put in EVERY line break? Why use
a program at all, you could just use vi and
sendmail. I only put in breaks at the end of a
paragraph. Don't people ever change their mind
and have to insert/delete text? Then what,
rejigger all the lines by hand? Surely you don't
still do that? Even Wordstar on a CP/M system in
the 70's handled text flow better than that.
Yes I do use vi (well, vim) and sendmail. And mutt.
And yes I put in each line break. It's automatic just like it was
when typing on a typewriter.
v}gq takes care of reflowing a paragraph in vim.
It's amazing what programs can do for you.
Todd
We're
in agreement there. I'm saying that the line-wrapping should
(and pretty much always has, all the way back to the BBS days) happen on
the SENDING end. Email isn't a "format it any way you want to READ it"
medium like the WWW was intended to be (but really isn't). It's a
"format it any way you want to WRITE it" medium.
If hard-wrapped E-mail is bad, then I guess I'm a perpetual offender.