[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Doug Phillips]

On Nov 10, 3:26 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 2:56 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>
>
> > In article<iben6n$qr... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>  writes:
> >> On 2010-11-10 18:25, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >>> In article<910f992e-ed5a-4e27-9491-882c5b085... at v20g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, MetaEd<met... at gmail.com>   writes:
> >>>> On Nov 10, 9:45 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >>>>> Can you make vim wrap at the indented column? =A0I hate trying to
> >>>>> follow code that is indented but then the long lines wrap at the
> >>>>> left margin.
>
> >>>> Vim normally wraps to the indented column.
>
> >>> Hmm.  I have PHP code that is a bitch to read because it's like
> >>> emails typed on WEENDOZE...
>
> >> OK, you have absolutely no idea what you are
> >> talking about, right ? What exactly characterize
> >> "emails typed on WEENDOZE" that makes them stand out ?
>
> > The lack of carriage returns because they type and hope that their email
> > program will automagically wrap their text.  Try reading WEEDOZE email in
> > a text email agent and you'll see.  You're here on comp.os.vms, so it's
> > probably you have access to VMS mail.  Have a look-see.  And, it's not a
> > WEENDOZE only phenom but that's the crux of most of the emails that I have
> > to suffer.
>
> Are my messages unreadable?  I have a return key and I use it.
>
> I have seen ONE message that came through as a single line about 700
> characters long.  I have been reading and posting news for more than
> twenty years.

I remember this guy way-back in the Compuserve VAX Forum
who would
respond "your post looks funny" to a person who used the Return
 key, which
 made their posts look like this because the forum software would
wrap lines
automatically at someplace other where the poster wanted it
to wrap.

Can't remember his name, though ;-)