On 20 February 2011 19:09, Jay Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
Why are we
imposing such an outdated rule? CLIs and text editors got
the ability to automatically wrap text several decades ago.
In fact, they *lost* the ability to automatically wrap text.
They thought that was an acceptable tradeoff for gaining the ability
to wrap *received* text if it was too long to fit.
^^^^^^^^
I've just proven why that's a bad tradeoff.
I don't understand your proof and I also don't know any CLIs or text
editors that don't automatically wrap text (if so configured).