[Gllug] [OT] What's with all the messy posts.

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Tue Oct 5 15:31:09 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:22:21PM +0100, Justin Perreault wrote:
> Any constructive input?

I think the point is you need to include line breaks so that no line
is longer than around 72 characters, as in this example:

> I wouldn't even try. Aside from my poor skills in the area, there are those who find writing as poorly as me difficult.

which should be (after my quoting):

> I wouldn't even try. Aside from my poor skills in the area, there
> are those who find writing as poorly as me difficult.

You can use emacs M-q to fold long lines to the right length.

Rich.

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