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After reading that, I'm really thankful that git-by-email is dying. Hard wrapping is just really terrible for anyone not using a VT-100.


I'm pretty sure that most people would prefer their code hard-wrapped at a certain line length.


That's a rather useless sentence if I'm being honest, most people would prefer their code bug-free as well.

In the end, normal programmers don't write 1000char lines and do format their code nicely. Any limits should be soft, pedantic hard-wrapping at some arbitrary character count is just harmful.

In the case of non-code, no, absolutely no hard wraps, people using phones, accessibility features or similar non VT-100 deserve readable text, not some disgustingly formatted column.




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