The Great "Hard Return" Debate

[Marty Abrego]

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:47:35 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

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>    And now, folks, a demonstration of a reflowing editor and why Bill's
>arguments are moot... 

<snip>

>    Now witness the same block after one simple command in three editors that
>I am personally aware of...

<snip>

>    Now doesn't that look neater?  But wait, there's more!  Here's a
>demonstration of what Bill's message would look like if he had his way and
>there were no CRs...

<here I will paste directly from Steve's email, to avoid the quoting effects from PM Mail>

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Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 7:12:55 AM, Bill wrote:
> No. Your are not missing anything at all. The only problem is that single
strings without HRts are messed with by the internet fabric for ancient
reasons for which I haven't grasped the technical justification.

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>    Kinda ugly with only one quote mark, isn't it?  

Yes, but not for the reason you mean.  See??  there are hard returns after "single" and "ancient".  Why is that?  If there weren't, it would have wrapped perfectly for whatever width I had my window set to.


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