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

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Thu Jan 16 22:12:02 GMT 2020

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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-levellibrary support while the wrapping has to be done manually, but then Ithought to check and, holy heck, Python has a `textwrap` module I wasn'taware of.

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

One of the most appealing things to me about the "long lines" approachis that it actually makes lists with multi-line items feasible withouthaving to define any special syntax for them.  I might elaborate on thislater...

Cheers,Solderpunk