Line length [Re: VT220 focus]

As someone else who writes ~70-column text: no, not every line break. I insert some of them manually. The rest are created automatically by editor autowrap. I do or don't, depending on how automated a process your "by hand" includes. If I need/want to reflow a paragraph, I manually delete each line break and manually provoke editor autowrap to get it reinserted it at the then-correct spot. (For my value of "correct", of course.) For example, my first paragraph here initially read "...text: no, not manually. I insert some of...". I later changed it and then rewrapped the rest of the paragraph this way, with ^E space ^D ^E space ^D ^E. I very occasionally will manually force linebreaks to go places other than where editor autowrap puts them. (I'm talking about running text here; things like quotes of computer output also have hard line breaks but are more often inserted by copy-&-paste or by having the editor insert a file's contents rather than by my typing them.) If I were less lazy, I'd instead generate multipart/mixed text with the running text marked format=flowed and quoted output and other such non-reflowable text not so marked. So far doing that hasn't been worth it to me. Of course, some people may find that laziness, or its product, reprehensible, as I do paragraph-length lines; I invite anyone who feels that way to procmail me to /dev/null (or killfile me, or whatever term), or just ignore my mail the way I sometimes skip most of a long-lines message after a glance at its beginning (as I did with the message that started this subthread off - it was difficult enough to read, and the first half-line or so sounded uninteresting enough, that I didn't bother reading the rest). Me neither. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B