Hello James, Il giorno mer, 05/03/2025 alle 21.32 -0800, James Lu ha scritto: > Hi all, > On 2025-02-26 10:21, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > > > I started thinking about this a few weeks ago when I received an email > > from a Debian Developer complaining that replies from my email client > > (KMail) looked odd because they truncated quoted lines in a way that did > > not lay out pleasingly. This was because I had set KMail to wrap lines > > at 80 characters. > > > > I see this too with a lot of ML posts - mails are wrapped in a way such > that the text only takes up a third of my monitor. This is one of those > things where the more I notice it, the more it annoys me :/ [...]
I think that even for emails, the line length should be kept at a reasonable value in order to maximize the readability. Such value is usually lower than 80, as shown, for example, in https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability . I do have a large screen, but I keep my email/text editors quite narrow in order to allow less than 100 characters per line. Of course YMMV. Bye, Giuseppe
