I always like to keep the length of lines down under 80 chars. I rarely edit in a window much wider that that, and even if I did it gets very hard for the eye to scan from end of line to the beginning of the next over 12-14 words. For example, when writing HTML, paragraphs are more easily read if they're not on one strapping great line and if indentation is correct. I'm aware of the Reformat Paragraph command, but this doesn't take structure or context into account. When writing code, long lines get complicated, perhaps they could be refactored to be simpler. As I'm a bit of a nerd, I appreciate the editor pointing out when I've exceeded the threshold and help me to refactor.
Basically, it's a style thing.
On 24 Mar 2006, at 4:57, Ned Baldessin wrote:
I'm curious : what's the point of hard-wrapping ? I've never understood in which cases it's useful. Please enlighten me.
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