> How else are you going to write a poem, or an address, in a text file? You don't understand what "hard-wrapping text" is, then, because neither of those thin

> How else are you going to write a poem, or an address, in a text file? You don't understand what "hard-wrapping text" is, then, because neither of those things involve hard-wrapping in the sense that we're discussing. Hard-wrapping (in the context that we're clearly using it) is where you add a newline in the middle of content to manually fit it to a terminal window or some other container. In poems or addresses, the newline is part of the formatting, just like when you're writing two paragraphs you separate them with a newline. That's categorically different than the hard-wrapping being discussed anywhere in this thread, where non-content linebreaks are being added to fit a specific width. You may want to re-read the surrounding comments, because you clearly missed something. > No. This is factually incorrect, because my statement "if you hard-wrap your text to 80 characters, and someone has a window that fits 100 characters at their desired text size - you're wasting 20% of their screen space." is factually correct. You are wasting their screen space. > Long text lines are unreadable. That's why we have soft-wrapping. Are you using a computer from the past few decades? All of them have the ability to soft-wrap text. > Hard-wrapping text at 60 or 70 characters is perfectly appropriate and does not waste anybody's screen space. Factually incorrect. If you hard-wrap at 60 characters and someone has a viewport that's 59 characters, then you waste close to 50% of their screen space due to the overflow and cause massive viewing headaches. If you hard-wrap at 60 characters and someone has a viewport that's 120 characters (which is a very reasonable value - mine is 173 normally or 147 on a bad-eyes day), you also waste 50% of their screen space. This is not an opinion - this is a fact. You should stop saying things that are objectively false, and especially advocating for harmful practices based on them.