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RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: 09 July 2004 12:02

> William Blunn wrote:
> 
> > I only wish that I could go back in time and show the 
> inventor of <PRE>
> > the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping 
> by default.
> 
> I'm pretty sure you were joking here but if not...
> 
> That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap.  It's for text
> that's been preformatted, with linefeeds and spacing already
> determined.  If PRE were to mangle the text by wrapping it at some
> margin, it would totally defeat the purpose of the tag.
> 
> What really needs to be improved is mhonarc or whatever app is used to
> make the web archives.  It should detect when the message contains no
> linebreaks and not use PRE but rather let the browser render it as
> normal text, so that it will be wrapped to the width of the screen as
> intended.

  Actually it's easier than that, I think.  All it needs to do is grep
through the MIME headers.  If it finds the format-flowed tag, it doesn't
insert <PRE>.  If it doesn't find it, it does.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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