On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 12:53:18PM -0700, Ted Lemon wrote: > What we really want is to not gratuitously add newlines. That is, to > not reflow the text. When a change is being made anyway, a newline in > the middle of the change is fine. Lines should not be too long, > because if they are then git diff output becomes incomprehensible. So > ideally you want to flow things to a reasonable line width, but then > not reflow to try to keep that length. You add newlines when adding > text that makes lines too long, but never reflow.
Yes. That exactly. > Of course, this is a hard discipline to follow. For me that means setting textwidth=0 when editing these things. And remembering not to reformat with `gqap` and similar. E.g., in this very email I used `gqj` to reflow the above quoted paragraph that would otherwise have been an annoyingly long line for me given that my terminal has 138 columns. Nico -- _______________________________________________ rfc-interest mailing list -- rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org To unsubscribe send an email to rfc-interest-le...@rfc-editor.org
