Think about how hatefully you might write a program to wrap combining characters to 80 columns, or how hateful you might find writing that program to be.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Walt Mankowski < waltman-hates-softw...@mawode.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:53:39AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > >> I don't *care* what editor I use, as long as it's reasonable. > > > > This issue has nothing to do with editors. > > > > Whether you use Pico, EZedit, vi, Emacs, or TECO, there's no law that > > says the mail software can't reflow the text before passing it to the > > editor, the same way GUI mail software does before passing the text to > > the text widget. > > > > Personally, I prefer mail software not do that, but that's because my > > editor (vi) makes reflowing easy with the "!}fmt" command. I don't see > > any reason, though, why mail software shouldn't have that option > > available for people who find reflowing an arduous process. > > > > So go ahead and hate Mutt, and I'll keep on hating Pine. > > Why stop there? Let's also hate the software that's generating all > these unwrapped paragraphs to begin with! > > Walt > >
