Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:53:54AM +0100, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>good idea to end lines at 65 characters. When most if not all but the
>most outdated MUA's are able to use wrapping, the guideline seems
>useless and could be changed.
Client-side wrapping breaks code snippets, log files, URIs and attached
text files.
I'm not sure this is a good idea.
Emmanuel
coding:
Only if your code extends beyond 65 or 72 characters, whichever you use.
I don't know about all languages, but usually more characters won't be
very clear coding anyway.
logfiles, URI.
I agree, with URI's this is especially annoying.
However, in general I think I understand why the rule was inserted into
the netiquette. You don't adjust the majority of messages to a minority
of special messages (containing code, log messages etc).
Usually code will be attached in an attachment anyway, except for code
snippets. Large logfiles ditto.
Guus.
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