Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

[Aaron Janse]

I've been thinking about this for a while. What's the purpose of wrapping line
breaks in the first place? Why not just have super long lines for text that
should be reflowed (then *soft*-wrap in the text editor)?

I understand that reflowing could be complex for simple clients, but couldn't
they just rely on their display mechanism's (e.g. a terminal's) wrapping
system?

I imagine that the answer is very obvious. I just want to make sure that I
understand before spewing any more opinions :-)