Purely from a user perspective, I don't want to see the script broken up. I am aware of the technical limitations introduced by merlyn -- the point is well-taken. But technicality aside, I think there is an element of keeping the scripts so that they look the way the author intended. One has to assume a certain level of facility of course, that the authors of code know where to put newlines and where to leave longer lines alone. My main concern though, is that everyone has their own unique style -- to my mind, adding newlines merely to make a script fit on a screen is kind of like correcting e.e. cummings' punctuation.

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In reply to RE: Wrapping long code tags, probably a bad idea by neshura
in thread Wrapping long code tags by BBQ

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