On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:52:30PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:36:45PM -0700, Alan Amaya wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:02:01AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> But what is an email client if not a tool for processing text?
It is a tool for processing *messages*. It is not a tool for processing
text. It operates at a much higher level than text.
>
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:36:45PM -0700, Alan Amaya wrote:
> 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.
In fact Donald Knuth has an elegant solution to the much more
difficult proble
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 d
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
