Change Tab Sizes in Forum Posts

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:54:07 +0000
schrieb "Brad Anderson" <eco at gnuk.net>:

> On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 09:17:52 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> > I think the column limit for word wrapping should be increased 
> > to at least 80
> 
> The problem with that is that you'll get terrible line wrapping 
> of any quoted parts after the first reply. Newsreaders and email 
> clients wrap before 80 to give some room for quoted region 
> prefixes. I only know this because I asked Vladimir in IRC why 
> the forum wraps at 65ish and some people ended up explaining this 
> to me. I don't like it still but I understand why it is this way 
> now.
> 
> I believe there is an unfinished pull request for DFeed to 
> re-newline quoted regions to avoid this problem.

I'm using a GUI news reader and a few years ago I decided to
post without hard line wrapping. It went well until someone
notified me that my text is somehow very wide and hard to read.
It seems not every client is readily set up for automatic
line-wrapping à la word processors, editors, web browsers.
The 80s are showing through...

-- 
Marco