On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:23:31 -0500 James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net> wrote: > > > > I think most mail readers are able to word-wrap raw text correctly > > (even though it still makes your messages look bad amongst a thread of > > nicely-formatted 80-column messages). > > The real annoyance is when reading Web archives of mailing-lists, e.g. > > http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2011-January/023346.html > > Well, yes, that's a pretty annoying bug in mailman, isn't it? If only anyone > around here was involved in mailman and could fix it! :) [I've attempted to > cc this to mailman-users with this message, but since I'm not subscribed I > dunno if it'll make it or not.]
Why is this a bug in mailman? Mailman archives messages as they are sent (well, perhaps it mangles e-mail addresses, perhaps). If someone draws a nice ASCII-art diagram which requires 90 columns instead of 80, you wouldn't want the archive to break its rendering. So, it's really the mail client (or its user :-)) which should handle word-wrapping, not some downstream tool which has no idea of the original intent. > I have this in my user CSS override file to fix the issue for myself globally > on all such archives out in the world: > /* Mailing list archives */ > html>body>pre { white-space: pre-wrap !important; } That doesn't wrap to 80 characters, does it? Only whatever the current window/container width is, which isn't necessarily the right thing (if that makes lines 160 characters long, it's still quite uncomfortable to read). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com