Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
Thank you for volunteering to rewrite the parser to consistently produce correct XHTML. Right?
No, I'm not a hacker :) Feeding stuff thru tidy/untidy can do wonders...
Seriously, *your* ideal column width and *my* ideal column width are not always going to be the same. If your lines are longer than my edit box, I see ragged broken lines and text does *not* look nice. If your lines are shorter than my edit box, I see a lot of annoyingly short lines and text does *not* look nice. This has been an endemic problem for years in email and usenet, and I've no desire to see it in wiki.
There is some truth in your statement. But: for editing purposes jumping line length don't hurt that much (Emacs hat M-q to work around those problems...) and more important I simply depend on broken lines -- grep, sed and awk work best on those line.
And don't tell me a webbrowser's built-in editor is a proper tool to write articles ;)