[BangPypers] Mail formatting for this list

[Jeffrey Jose]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> Balachandran Sivakumar <benignbala at gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> >             It is not a "strong" preference. It is something that a
> > lot of us are used to, and so I assume people are fine with it and
> > hence status quo :).
>
> It's quite a strong preference for me. I'm also very pedantic about the
> way I format my emails.
>
> I'm not too particular about horizontal space. I think the current trend
> which favours widescreen aspect ratios is deplorable and not very
> helpful while coding. It's irritating when a line of text is so long on
> a monitor that I have to deliberately look left to right.


Conveniently changed the topic from mails to code eh? :)

Anyway, I'm with you on that.  Especially hard when I have to diff
something side by side.
Irritating? Yes. Deplorable? Not quite.



> I much prefer
> vertical screen space so that I don't have to repeatedly scroll and jump
> around while trying to read some code.
>

I dont understand. What's your viewport width? Can that only support 80ish
chars? Are you on mobile/tablet?

I'm on gmail, and I can see .. chatbox, this email, lots of whitespace AND
advertisements.. from left to right.



>
> >            But, if people find this format difficult and prefer a
> > full-width format, we can try out and ask for people's feedback. Just
> > that it takes a few days to get used it and that should be fine.
>
> Please no. It's annoying and there's no real gain from allowing long
> lines of text.
>
>
What's annoying to me is that this breaks my flow of reading when I have
to constantly move my eyes right to left, hoping I land on the next line.
Its especially hard to find the correct line when you're in the middle of a
big paragraph.


I think what I'm trying to say is for code, 80 chars (for the most part)
and for emails, lets use the full width (and let the editor/browser/client
deal with wrapping)


-jeff


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> Noufal
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