On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:46 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately the line length can grow (beyond the limit of perhaps > 64-70 allowed) by the addition(s) of "> ", sigh.
That should not really matter, for code, because you already have to hand edit it to get rid of the >. It's often easier to go to an earlier instance of the quoted material and use it directly. > Another convention is in Markdown: where a long line is only ended > with two spaces. A reader could be made using that convention: It > would run together all lines not demarked by two LF's or two spaces. > Unwrapping the others. It would have to rid unused "> "'s - which > might be sad if they are needed, though escaping, in that rare case, > is an option. Some mail environments delete trailing spaces on lines. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
