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Wrapping phlog posts at 70 characters
Saturday Apr 20 12:43:23 2019
I use lynx as gopher client. When sdf/eu had bucktooth as gopher
server I could read texts even if they had lines 80 characters long
So I didn't really care if my text editor aligned 70 or 80 chars. I
used one or the other quite carelessly even though some people had
complained they couldn't properly read some or my phlog posts.
Well, now since we have gophernicus, not even I can read some of my
posts with 80 chars per line. Therefore this is a situation I have
change.
I started last night wrapping text correctly for gophernicus using
'fold' like this:
$ fold -w 70 -s gophermap
"w" stands for width and "s" makes text break at spaces and not cut
words.
This works really great, but it sometimes breaks the layout of some
posts so I have to manually revise and tweak them. Not a big deal,
just a reminder that you have to do things well from the start: "Al
well that begins well" ;)
From now on I have: set fill 70 in my .nanorc
On a side note, gophernicus seems reluctant to show text that is
prepended with some signs like #, * or - so I have to indent some
lines to make it work.
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