Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?") Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 08:05:00 -0700 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <010701c464f4$398e2030$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <013301c464fe$e2e425d0$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <20040708222627 DOT GB15706 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <006f01c4659b$eb0c13b0$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <20040709101909 DOT GL1389 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <00b901c465a2$08e3ca30$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <40EE7B15 DOT 3EB2B368 AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) In-Reply-To: <40EE7B15.3EB2B368@dessent.net> Brian Dessent wrote: > William Blunn wrote: > >> I only wish that I could go back in time and show the inventor of >>
 the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping by 
>> default.
>
> I'm pretty sure you were joking here but if not...
>
> That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. It's for text 
> that's been preformatted, with linefeeds and spacing already 
> determined. If PRE were to mangle the text by wrapping it at some 
> margin, it would totally defeat the purpose of the tag.
>
> What really needs to be improved is mhonarc or whatever app is used to 
> make the web archives. It should detect when the message contains no 
> linebreaks and not use PRE but rather let the browser render it as 
> normal text, so that it will be wrapped to the width of the screen as 
> intended.

IOW the 
 tag is not the appropriate tag for the job in the case of 
a format=flowed message.


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