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> I take the even more draconian approach of wrapping to 72 columns when writing comments, after the fashion of PEP 8.[3] Which also happens to be how Linus wr
by jagger27 5y ago
> I take the even more draconian approach of wrapping to 72 columns when writing comments, after the fashion of PEP 8.[3]
Which also happens to be how Linus wrapped the lines of this particular email.
- SonOfLilit 5y agoPlaintext email is wrapped to 72, that's in the RFC - Linus didn't have much choice there.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoSure did: > Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1 https://www.arp242.net/email-wrapping.html https://www.arp242.net/email-wrapping.html