> Is this message – an equivalent of a new forum topic or thread? Does anyone > even see this? Sorry, first time having conversations this way. Also, is > hard-wrapping lines at 80 characters a requirement? I see many people > doing this here (I > think I also saw Linus Torvalds doing the same in kernel emails).
Wrapping lines like that means smaller screens have a much better viewing experience. Also on bigger screens one can resize or tile windows, which means more windows and text for better efficiency. > I do see an appeal in this, but I don't necessarily see the purpose. You can > configure any text editor to soft-wrap at the end of the screen > without breaking lines. > Is there something I can read about this? I use Vi and have `set wraplen=79` in ~/.exrc file among others things.
