[imp] Word wrapping in IMP 2.3.7-cvs

[Rich Lafferty]

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:39:21PM -0400, Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) wrote:
> 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?

Assuming that we want to account for the case in which someone doesn't
set it explicitly, I'd say either 65, 70, or 72. The latter, of
course, allows you to resort your cards when you drop them. :-)

  -Rich 

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