[TxMt] Text width control

[Afternoon]

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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