On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap.
> When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes
> are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend and he told me
> that it takes 78 signs for him.
> Is there a standard for how many signs it should take to do an automatic
> line wrap?
The only thing that might come close to a standard would be this:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
- Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
with a carriage return.
but 72 is a common value used by several established editors (like
(g)vim).
Kind regards,
Andrei
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