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

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:

> 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? :)

Wow, that's your usual interface to Emacs? A projector on the wall? Respect...