Alan Ianson:
This editor I am using now (GoldED) will save paragraphs
as one long line.
I see a lot of posts written via GoldED and formatted to a
limited line width, usually the standard 72 charactes. It
must be configurable in the settings.
I prefer when editors use one long line for a paragraph.
Then readers can wrap those lines as appropriate for the
terminal size being used by the reader instead of
wrapping as the writer sees it since they could be
different.
This is hightly non-standard, for readers are not required
to warp long lines. In Usenet, Fidonet, and e-mail, this is
the responsiblity of the sender. Here is the relevant
excerpt from GNKSA, but you shall find statements to similar
effect in RFC and other standards and guidelines:
14) Try to respect the 80-character line-length
conventions
Any line breaks shown to the user while she is editing
her article SHOULD still be present when the article is
actually posted to the Net. The software SHOULD NOT show
the user four 75-character lines while actually posting a
single 300-character line. Nor should it show the user a
series of 100-character lines while actually posting
alternating lines of 80 and 20 characters each.
It's also a good idea to warn the user if the article she
is about to post contains non-header lines longer than 80
characters. The software SHOULD NOT prevent the posting,
but SHOULD ask whether the user wants to re-edit or post
anyway.
A standard-conforing way to have a flexible line width is
Format=Flawed :
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2646#section-4.1
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