[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

John dingo at coco2.arach.net.au
Wed Oct 6 21:46:26 UTC 2004


Brett Kirksey wrote:
> 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.

This from the email to which I replied:
Message-ID: <r02010400-1035-C4E4385317BA11D9B9A80030659054E8@[192.168.1.27]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: Mailsmith 2.1.4 (Blindsider)


No Format tag.




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