On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:27, Apelete Seketeli<apel...@seketeli.org> wrote: > Hi, > >> I think this bug already shows the problems: Apelete wrote long >> sentences that are not wrapped to a given column (usually 80 or 72). >> This will lead to the need of *horizontal* scrolling, really annoying. > > That's it Sandro, you understood exactly what I was trying to describe.
:) >> I do think this is something the the MUA / EDITOR used should no and >> *NOT* reportbug (there are lines that *needs* to be long, like errors >> / stack straces & co). > > I thought the same, but since I write my bug reports in the terminal > using Vim (this one is written from Gmail web interface though) I > reported the bug against this package. > Perhaps there's a config option in Vim to tell it to wrap the text to > a given column...I definitely should look into that. If text wrapping > isn't available in Vim (and I seriously doubt that), I may have to > switch to another editor :'(. Sure, vim has text wrapping capabilities: in command-mode type 'set textwidth=80" or replace 80 with the column number you want your text to be wrapped around. Also emacs has "Meta + q" to wrap text (executed on the paragraph to wrap). > Perhaps something should be written in the README.Users file, to tell > people to enable text wrapping in their editor or switch to an editor > that support it. Well, I'm a bit unsure if this is the right approach: you choose to use an editor, and you're supposed to know how to use it (else you can document about it). I think we cannot add any possible documentation about the tools that can be used by reportbug. That said, I think we can close the bug: Apelete, do you agree? Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
