On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Last time I checked, the text files never had lines longer than 200 > characters (I chose this intentionally large). So, it might be a good > heuristic to check the maximal line length, No, some broken editor programs and people use "flowing text" files, where a newline is actually a _paragraph_ end. You have lines in the hundreds (and thousands) of characters, and the program will just flow the text for you. Ugh. Horrible, I know. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html