On 2026-03-03 12:10, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
No one, ever, will use a 1970s line-wrapper to process petabytes
No one should use a 1970s line-wrapper, period. Which is why its maintenance languishes. I daresay it still exists primarily because it'd be a hassle to remove it. And I say that as someone who actually *used* fmt routinely, five or so decades ago, as a sort of plugin for vi, though even then when I wanted serious formatting I used troff. Nowadays of course there's no real reason to use for fmt, as text editors now do that stuff for you.
Although I enjoyed the rants, such talents for invective are wasted on useless programs like fmt. If you can't supply a good patch for fmt, please at least use those talents on a more worthy target. cp, say.
