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echo: english_tutor
to: Alexander Koryagin
from: Gleb Hlebov
date: 2023-11-28 11:35:00
subject: test

Hello, Alexander!

Someone in disguise of
Alexander Koryagin (2:221/6)
wrote to me:

 GS>> few peopletold me it
 GS>> woulddn't be a good idea
 GS>> to hard-wrap lines to
 GS>> afixed value, andd
 GS>> there's no such option in
 GS>> GoldED's config eiter.
 AK> It is really not a good
 AK> idea. There are a lot of
 AK> people with small narrow
 AK> displays and long lines
 AK> allow them read paragraphs
 AK> correctly. Paragraphs with
 AK> hard-wraps look badly in
 AK> that case.

Exactly how small and narrow?
Are there so many users that
can not set their terminal
window width at least at 80
columns? Do you know any of
them personally? Maybe someone
who uses a Commodore or a ZX
Spectrum?
This is how our msgs would
appear formatted to fit a
Speccy screen. :-)


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