Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AB49FA354 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 14:08:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14671-05 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 14:08:19 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no (cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEE29FA344 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 14:08:20 -0400 (AST) Received: from trofast.sesse.net ([129.241.93.32]) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gs1Bo-0006SP-2E for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:08:16 +0100 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gs1Bk-00051q-00 for ; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:08:12 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:08:12 +0100 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: [offtopic] Word wrapping Message-ID: <20061206180812.GA19223@uio.no> Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <25B4661C-C66A-4DE4-AD8A-A911353914BC@purefiction.net> <4576F045.3080400@bluegap.ch> <20061206164338.GA16573@uio.no> <457701D4.3070803@bluegap.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <457701D4.3070803@bluegap.ch> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.19 on a x86_64 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/136 X-Sequence-Number: 22192 On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:45:56PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Cool, thank you for the example :-) I thought the MTA or at least the the > mailing list would wrap mails at some limit. I've now set word-wrap to 9999 > characters (it seems not possible to turn it off completely in > thunderbird). But when writing, I'm now getting one long line. Thunderbird uses format=flowed, so it's wrapped nevertheless. Google to find out how to turn it off if you really need to. > What's common practice? Usually 72 or 76 characters, TTBOMK -- but when posting tables or big query plans, one should simply turn it off, as it kills readability. > What's it on the pgsql mailing lists? No idea. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/