Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters
Hello James,
Il giorno mer, 05/03/2025 alle 21.32 -0800, James Lu ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> On 2025-02-26 10:21, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> >
> > I started thinking about this a few weeks ago when I received an email
> > from a Debian Developer complaining that replies from my email client
> > (KMail) looked odd because they truncated quoted lines in a way that did
> > not lay out pleasingly. This was because I had set KMail to wrap lines
> > at 80 characters.
> >
>
> I see this too with a lot of ML posts - mails are wrapped in a way such
> that the text only takes up a third of my monitor. This is one of those
> things where the more I notice it, the more it annoys me :/
[...]
I think that even for emails, the line length should be kept at a reasonable
value in order to maximize the readability. Such value is usually lower than
80, as shown, for example, in
https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability . I do have a large screen,
but I keep my email/text editors quite narrow in order to allow less than
100 characters per line. Of course YMMV.
Bye,
Giuseppe
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