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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: This forum has gone to crap |
| Date | 2015-08-24 18:30 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <lnlhd0xihv.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <0be9973f-92f5-49cd-b7e4-a3b4f65d6bb5@googlegroups.com> <26a41171-5f4d-42c3-81a0-574e83cf05ba@googlegroups.com> <lny4h0y42v.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <0cb99308-4e8f-4329-9b6e-cbafe156fd3b@googlegroups.com> <4e209e11-16dd-4fa3-bcb3-ab47aee4ab96@googlegroups.com> |
David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> The long line problem seems to be as follows:
>
[...]
> (3) There is a flag in the messages that are interchanged that sets
> whether of not the messages will wrap around at the end of a line.
[...]
As far as I know there is no such flag.
This message will appear word-wrapped to anyone who reads it because its
body contains explicit end-of-line markers ('\n' characters, possibly
translated to and/or from CRLF pairs at one or more points between my
machine and yours) no more than about 75 bytes apart. I happen to be
using a text editor that makes it easy to do that.
I could just as easily have written each paragraph without internal line breaks, like this one (though actually I have to go to a little extra effort to tell my editor *not* to wrap it).
A message posted by a Google Groups user who does not explicitly insert
line breaks simply does not have those explicit end-of-line markers. A
paragraph within such an article might consist of several hundred
characters with no embedded newlines.
How such long lines are displayed varies depending on the client
software in use. The program I use wraps long lines, but not at
word boundaries; it can probably be configured to do something
else, but I've never bothered to find out how. Web interfaces
like Google Groups typically display very long lines in some more
or less reasonable fashion.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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