> On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> > Eric Weir schrieb am 16.01.2012 um 18:36 (-0500):
> >>
> >> Still not quite clear about the concept of "flowing" and "reflowed"
> >> text. The way Tim put it makes it sound like all paragraphs, not
> >> just each paragraph, on one line.
Tradition of typing text into terminals: 72 or 76 or 78 characters
(colums) per line. Because 80 columsn was the width of the terminal
and some columns were needed for line numbering.
Flowing text: refers to text as long as it gets on one line, without
any regard for the old terminal width limit.
Just two different styles of writing text. Can both be observed on
mailing lists etc.
> > And here's another paragraph you wrote; going to leave that one
> > flowing as it is for the sake of the example (although I prefer mail
> > text to be formatted old-fashioned style).
> >
> >> I'm not sure what I have. I have vim set to wrap lines at the
> >> screen, but I don't think there's any wrapping in the file. So
> >> does my text "flow" or not?
> >
> > And I think that's all there is to it.
>
> It's just a matter of whether you wrap your paragraphs?
Yes.
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