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

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Thu Jan 16 22:12:02 GMT 2020


On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 01:09:18PM -0800, Aaron Janse wrote:
> Oops, I meant to mention two things:
> 1. Clients are already using TLS. I think wrapping is significantly
>    easier than encryption.

I was about to quip that the TLS is made really easy by high-level
library support while the wrapping has to be done manually, but then I
thought to check and, holy heck, Python has a `textwrap` module I wasn't
aware of.

> 2. Lists are tough to handle when re-flowing text.

One of the most appealing things to me about the "long lines" approach
is that it actually makes lists with multi-line items feasible without
having to define any special syntax for them.  I might elaborate on this
later...

Cheers,
Solderpunk


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