On 2008-08-26, at 18:35, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
gaah! me powerful software shaman! watch me majikally reflow text by
piping paragraph through external program!
You want me to pull out some hate about the things you had to do
BEFORE pipes and filters, and you STILL have to do on operating
s
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:53:39AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Personally, I prefer mail software not do [text reflowing], but that's
> because my editor (vi) makes reflowing easy with the "!}fmt" command.
gaah! me powerful software shaman! watch me majikally reflow text by
piping paragraph
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 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
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 be
