[imp] Word wrapping in IMP 2.3.7-cvs

Jon Parise jon@csh.rit.edu
Fri, 11 May 2001 16:39:21 -0400


On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:07PM -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:

> > You haven't updated your prefs.conf from .dist.  There's a new
> > preference that controls how many characters to wrap.  Since you
> > don't have that preference defined you get the hardcoded minimum of
> > 20.
> 
> I realize there *may* be someone out there with a web browser on their
> VIC-20, but does that default strike anyone as low? :-)

It's completely arbitrary.  I picked it because I didn't think
we'd run into any problems with individual words being longer
than twenty characters.

What would be a better minimum value?  Perhaps 40 or 50
characters?

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