According to Allan Odgaard:
with option-ctrl-F). Not sure why the data needs to be hard wrapped though. I.e. if it's just an editing preference, or if it has to do
Think of writing mail. I want my mails hard-wrapped at around column 72 / 75 (mostly because I'm a UNIX dinosaur and tty are entrenched in me :)) and I positively hate editors that do not have hard-wrap. I don't use TM for mail as my main platform for that is mutt inside screen but if it would be included in TM then I'd use it inside Thunderbird/Mail.app for internal mail.
with wanting to ship documents to others as hard wrapped. If it's the latter, and there's any automation already involved, I'd think it's not a problem to add 'fold -sw78' to the tool-chain.
Yes.
I do remember one situation though; when sharing prose documents on cvs/svn. Merging paragraphs is easier if these are kept as hard wrapped. Other than that, I'm clueless to why anyone would want to use it, when column width/resolution/font size differ so much today ;)
Yes diff is mostly line-oriented and softwrapping has a tendency to wreck avock in diffs :)