From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88576 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: disable "You have lines longer than 79 characters. Really post? (y or n) y" Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 18:25:27 -0700 Message-ID: <87lfz5hny0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <86bm07ywua.fsf@zoho.eu> <87bm02vqlh.fsf@x230.onfire.org> <86v9yaqb72.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="270334"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36779@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 17 03:26:24 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRRdg-0018CO-3E for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 03:26:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hRRd3-0002so-Sd; Thu, 16 May 2019 20:25:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hRRcx-0002q3-UU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2019 20:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hRRcw-00033p-6I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 May 2019 20:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRRcs-0004xc-6W for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 03:25:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRRcq-0017Ku-Oi for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 03:25:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:XpjiR0GBp7RcxCzzEZ4YqbXbHbw= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88576 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg 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...