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
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