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It's ironic that he's wrapping the text of this email at 80 columns rather than letting the email reader do the wrapping based on the width.
by vjeux 6y ago
It's ironic that he's wrapping the text of this email at 80 columns rather than letting the email reader do the wrapping based on the width.
- ordu 6y agoText and source code in a programming language are different things. Most lines in source code do not fill line from start to end. And there are a lot of almost empty lines (in terms of count of non-space characters). It is easy to navigate through this by eyes. But when you got a rectangle filled with characters it is much easier to get lost.
- pkilgore 6y ago> Word-wrapping is a property of the text. And the tool you use to visualize things cannot know. End result: you do word-wrapping at the only stage where you can do it, namely when writing it. Not when showing it.[1] - Linus Torvolds [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5661185 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56611...