From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:34:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1B1BLv-0004f5-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <404F6375.3080500@blue-labs.org>
David Ford wrote:
>Really, your mail reading software should be capable of wrapping things
>by itself, we really have progressed from yesteryear.
The issue is that there are two types of text. The message itself should
be wrapped, whereas inline code may be semantically changed by being
wrapped. If both are streams of text with no embedded newlines then
there's no way of telling the difference between them, whereas if one
has embedded newlines then the choice of wrapping the other can be made
by the recipient. The alternative would result in both being wrapped,
which isn't the behaviour I want. Having lines that are slightly shorter
than ideal on some people's screens seems the lesser of two evils.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-10 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-10 6:16 Godbole, Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial)
2004-03-10 10:34 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-03-10 18:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-10 18:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-10 18:50 ` [OT] " David Ford
2004-03-10 19:06 ` Roland Dreier
2004-03-10 19:26 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 21:26 ` Roland Dreier
2004-03-10 22:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-03-10 19:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-10 19:31 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 23:20 ` Frank v Waveren
2004-03-10 23:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 2:14 ` David Ford
2004-03-11 15:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-10 23:10 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-10 21:29 ` viro
2004-03-10 22:20 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 22:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-11 0:33 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-11 10:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-03-10 22:49 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-10 23:14 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 23:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-10 23:47 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-10 21:34 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2004-03-10 23:00 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 0:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-11 2:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-11 3:08 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 3:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-11 4:40 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 9:48 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 10:29 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 15:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-11 17:42 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 23:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-03-11 6:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-03-11 7:36 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 15:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 15:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-11 15:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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