ARGVMI~1.PIFMar 12

Just thought of a reason why you'd want to use soft #wrapping and not hard wrapping (in your #editor, #git #commit messages, etc): if you #grep for a phrase, it won't match instances where there's a hard #wrap in the middle of the phrase.

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@argv_minus_one I fear peoples that use hard wrapping. Why?!
Mar 12 at 8:50pmWeb
Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFMar 12

@jasperspicace

Beats me. As far as I know, you'd only actually need hard wrapping when you've got two dumb terminals talking to each other with no actual computer between them, like the old mechanical teletypes. If there is a computer, then you can program the computer to do soft wrapping.

Show threadARGVMI~1.PIFMar 12

@jasperspicace

If I were to redesign #ASCII today, I'd probably replace the carriage return and line feed codes with line break and paragraph break codes, which behave like HTML <br> and <p> respectively.