Hard wrapping (was: Re: [TxMt] horizontal scroll)

[Ollivier Robert]

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 :)
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