Re: disable "You have lines longer than 79 characters. Really post? (y or n) y"

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

Christian Barthel wrote:

Well, hello there bch :) So it worked out at
last! Great job :)

> Personally, I prefer breaking the URL at the
> "natural" line length and use the Gnus
> "unsplit URL" (W u) to bring them back in
> full length and click on it.

Yeah, but strange as it sounds, not everyone
uses Gnus, and also, that doesn't work on the
web archives which people browse with ordinary
browsers, often not even using a traditional
computer but a smartphone or tablet of
some sort.

> The URL would become something like that:
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/10077/
> how-to-edit-crontab-directly-within-emacs-when-
> i-already-have-emacs-open
>
> An alternative approach that I do sometimes
> is to use my own url shortener service and
> post that instead. I always write the
> Content-Type, Size and origin below the URL.

Hm, I'm not following 100%... how does that
work/look?

>> Col 120! So it it by a safe margin (indeed,
>> 41 chars, or >150%) one can say that the 79
>> char warning limit is exaggerated...
>
> Out of curiosity, how did you come up with
> your line length of being somewhere below
> 50 chars?

You mean the `fill-column'? It is 47, so good
estimate. So, how did I come up with that?
Well, I use a projector and Emacs in a Linux VT
with the font settings [1] at

FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
FONTSIZE="8x16"
SCREEN_HEIGHT=26
SCREEN_WIDTH=72

Here is a screenshot how it looks [2]

On the projector image on the wall, it
corresponds to a line width of (let me get my
folding rule) ~126cm (or ~49.5 inches) which
I think is just right.

Any questions? :)


[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/vt/console-setup
[2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/figures/gnus/gnus-post.png

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