On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap. > When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes > are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend and he told me > that it takes 78 signs for him. > Is there a standard for how many signs it should take to do an automatic > line wrap?
The only thing that might come close to a standard would be this: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line with a carriage return. but 72 is a common value used by several established editors (like (g)vim). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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