[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

MetaEd metaed at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 10:09:42 EST 2010


On Nov 10, 2:42 am, DTL <didier.mora... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should I limit the width of my comments to 80 c. then <CR><LF> ?
> To 132c. ? Should I not limit their length?  (I'm talking about
> full lines comments, not end of line comments).

My solution is to avoid a particular line length. Instead, I use a
language sensitive editor (Vim) which can indent and wrap lines,
including comment lines, as I see fit. The same code can have
different line lengths for different purposes.

For example, for the purpose of composing this reply, I set no limit
on line width. But for the purpose of sending it, I set tw=68 and
wrapped the entire document at that margin with the command gggqG.
This correctly wrapped both the quoted text and my reply.



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