Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262864AbUCJXOb (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:14:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262890AbUCJXNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:13:23 -0500 Received: from alt.aurema.com ([203.217.18.57]:18825 "EHLO smtp.sw.oz.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262872AbUCJXLI (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:11:08 -0500 Message-ID: <404FA078.7010001@aurema.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:10:48 +1100 From: Peter Williams Organization: Aurema Pty Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: David Ford , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Godbole, Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial)" Subject: Re: [OT] Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0) References: <905989466451C34E87066C5C13DDF034593392@HYDMLVEM01.e2k.ad.ge.com> <20040310100215.1b707504.rddunlap@osdl.org> <404F6375.3080500@blue-labs.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1803 Lines: 50 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, David Ford wrote: > > >>Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> >> >>>People who develop kernel code also know what a line-warp is. >>>They put a '\n' "[Enter] key" in their text every so-often, >>>maybe every 70 to 79 characters... >>> >>> >> >>*thinks back to that 40 >>character screen wrap >>that everyone used to >>hound everyone else >>for* >> >>Really, your mail reading software should be capable of wrapping things >>by itself, we really have progressed from yesteryear. >> > > > No. You can set your screen size to anything. If you have a very > high resolution screen, perhaps even 400 columns. If you are > sending mail to somebody, you need to make sure it fits on > their page, not your page. My mail program (netscape) (when so configured) automatically wraps lines (at a specified width - I use 72) for me by inserting new line characters when it sends the message. It also wraps lines while I'm editing but without the new line characters so that when I delete some characters or insert some new ones in the middle of a paragraph I don't have to reformat the paragraph. I like this feature and assume that any reasonably modern mail program provides the same feature. So what's all the fuss about? Peter -- Dr Peter Williams, Chief Scientist peterw@aurema.com Aurema Pty Limited Tel:+61 2 9698 2322 PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012, Australia Fax:+61 2 9699 9174 79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia http://www.aurema.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/