linux-kernel - Re: Ideas on column length in kernel "problem"?

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Message-Id: <1187943467.3831.17.camel@blr-suresh.blr.novell.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:47:46 +0530
From:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...ell.com>
To:	Scott Thompson <postfail@...hmail.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ideas on column length in kernel "problem"?

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:54:41PM -0400, Scott Thompson wrote:

> > I haven't seen any recent solutions to this "problem"...
> > 
> > Many free (and not-free) mail clients wordwrap.  Hushmail wraps at 
> > 68 (verified), Yahoo has options to wrap at a max of 99, and Gmail 
> > was somewhere around 85-90 as I recall.  Not sure on other free / 
> > inexpensive clients.

I too had thought about this problem. I think email clients do wordwrap
to improve readability. But, in some cases we just might have to
override. ( I had an experience of sending a malformed patch just
because my wordwrap setting for vim and my email client were different)

What should be ideally expected out of a good email client?
Is it sufficient if the email client provides a facility to disable
wordwrap while inserting file alone and does wordwrap while typing text?
or is it expected to provide a configurable option to enable/disable
wordwrap. I don't think keeping wordwrap disabled all the time is a good
idea because it makes it difficult to read mails.

Do we have a suggested wordwrap setting w.r.t kernel code?

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman

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