On 20 February 2011 19:09, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: >> Why are we imposing such an outdated rule? CLIs and text editors got >> the ability to automatically wrap text several decades ago. > > In fact, they *lost* the ability to automatically wrap text. > > They thought that was an acceptable tradeoff for gaining the ability > to wrap *received* text if it was too long to fit. > ^^^^^^^^ > > I've just proven why that's a bad tradeoff.
I don't understand your proof and I also don't know any CLIs or text editors that don't automatically wrap text (if so configured). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
