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   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 05-Dec-2019 06:37 <=-   
      
    NB>> And less now... ;)   
      
    MK> I see 27 days as I reply to you.   
      
   As I see below.... and, as I keep slipping behind again, time just zips   
   along... ;)  About 21 days now...  ;)   
       
    NB>> No issues from this side, but then I've not been seeing whatever   
    NB>> you think is the problem with it anyway.... ;)   
      
    MK> That is probably correct.  From all the discussions we've had in the   
    MK> past I am assuming you will always see line lengths of 80 characters   
    MK> or less.  As I type this I can look down and see on the editor's   
    MK> status line that this particular line is 260 characters.    
    MK> Doing an 80 character line wrap - I use coreutils's fold command - you   
    MK> will probably see the above as 4 lines and it will look something like   
    MK> below;    
    MK> -={ ye olde cut and paste starts }=-   
    MK> That is probably correct.  From all the discussions we've had in the   
    MK> past I am assubing you will always see line lengths of 80 characters or   
    MK> less.  As I type this I can look down and see on the editor's status   
    MK> line that this particular line is 260 characters.   
    MK> -={ ye olde cut and paste ends }=-   
    MK> However from your perspective the cut and paste is more than likely   
    MK> exactly the same as the original.    
      
   They were identical lengths in the original message, but something weird   
   seems to have happened when they were quoted... no idea why the quoter   
   would clip sooner on the first than on the second at the end of the   
   second line... :)   
      
    MK> Probably a better example would be   
    MK> to split the 260 character line to 60 characters to see a difference;    
    MK> -={ ye olde cut and paste starts }=-   
    MK> That is probably correct.  From all the discussions we've   
    MK> had in the past I am assubing you will always see line   
    MK> lengths of 80 characters or less.  As I type this I can   
    MK> look down and see on the editor's status line that this   
    MK> particular line is 260 characters.   
    MK> -={ ye olde cut and paste ends }=-   
    MK> That *should* look different and perhaps illustrate the greater power   
    MK> in unlimited line lengths within messages in order to facillitate   
    MK> differing line lengths of various displays.    
      
   Yes, that did come up differently... The only problem for me with a line   
   set to wrap at greater than 80 (but not unlimited) would be that it   
   would show up as a regular line and then a short line, alternating... I   
   have my word wrap in Emacs set for 72, otherwise it would also do the   
   longlines, but not that useful for most of what I'm doing...    
      
   I also note that apparently you fixed the typo (assubing/assuming) in   
   the original iteration after doing the cut and paste jobbies... ;)      
      
    MK> In my case line the   
    MK> monitor I am currently using is 160 characters wide so a message that   
    MK> forces line lengths to 80 is a waste of an awesome terminal.    
      
   I suppose so... :)  Here, the monitor is 80 characters wide, so both my   
   BlueWave reader and the Emacs editor can only display up to 80   
   characters on the screen at one time on any line.... BW handles that by   
   doing the automatic wrap that keeps all the characters on the screen   
   (since one can't move off the current screen without going to the next   
   message, so things would otherwise be chopped off entirely)... Emacs   
   will switch to the next section of the line at character 79 (and   
   multiples thereof)...   
      
    NB>> We've been getting a mix of sometimes rain sometimes light snow   
      
    MK> No snow yet, light or otherwise.  :-)   
      
   Nice for you.... unless you like to see the snow... ;)   
       
    NB>> Mountains tend to collect snow, though....  ;)   
      
    MK> As well as dump their loads on unsuspecting people below.  As far as I   
    MK> know that has never happened locally.    
      
   True, avalanches are pretty scary.... never been in the close vicinity   
   of one of those myself, either.... :)   
      
   ttyl      neb   
      
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