[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

[Brett Kirksey]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 at 04:52+0800, John wrote:

> Internet standards mandate line breaks.

> Since Internet standards (there really is an RFC dealing with
> this) mandates line breaks I mostly simply chastise the
> abuser and offer no further help.

> There really are enough users with well-formed questions that
> I feel inclined to answer in the time I'm willing too donate
> without straining over ill-formed or ill-phrased questions.

At the risk of going way off topic, I'm afraid this is a subject
of debate. The reason I said this is a no win situation is that
more and more e-mail clients are using format=flowed. And yes it
has an RFC <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3676.html>. With
electronic messaging become more prevalent on small devices such
as pda's and cell phones, a format has been necessary to
dynamically wrap quoted text thereby requiring no line breaks.

While you have no obligation to answer any e-mail you do not
wish to, I don't think it is completely accurate to say that
line breaks are "standard" when there is an RFC saying the
opposite <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3676.html>.

With that said, I prefer line breaks as my e-mail client does
not acknowledge format = flowed. :-)

Brett