ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (04/18/91)
Much traffic here and in the various mailing lists consists of citations from other people's mail. A typical citation is: In message 1234567890 Lewis Carroll writes: >> The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things, Of ships and shoes and >> sealing wax of cabbages and kings, of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings If the original message uses all 80 characters, the citations wraparound or are truncated, but in any event are unpleasant to read. I would like to ask people to try to avoid running their messages out to the margin so there is room left for the ">> " in the event somebody cites it. That is, try to use no more than about 76 columns. Original messages that contain text more than 80 characters wide drive me up the wall. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
yogi@charmian.sonoma.edu (John Beaty) (04/20/91)
Some of our screens are more than >80< collumns wide, so if we don't watch what we write .....<! If andy gets driven up the wall by >80 char columns, then I feel better about cursing my PDP 11/73 that I`m trying to bring up under minix. yogi.
abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown) (04/22/91)
> Some of our screens are more than >80< collumns wide, so if > we don't watch what we write .....<! > yogi. If you set (auto-fill-mode 1) in GNU emacs you don't *have* to watch what you write. -- Allen Brown abrown@cv.hp.com or abrown%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com or hplabs!hpcvca!abrown or "Hey you!" Not representing my employer. A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. ---Alexander Smith
kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) (04/23/91)
In article <5870014@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown) writes: >If you set (auto-fill-mode 1) in GNU emacs you don't *have* to watch >what you write. If you 'set wrapmargin=8' in vi you don't have to worry about these things either. This also works in elvis for Minix. -- favourite oxymorons: student athlete, military justice, mercy killing Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6 kjh@usc.edu ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh