# Line Length limit in posts

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-length-limit-in-posts/171091>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 26, 2009, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-length-limit-in-posts/171091 "2009-06-26T10:34:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![tonypm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@tonypm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tonypm)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-length-limit-in-posts/171091/1 "2009-06-26T10:34:49Z")

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It has occurred to me several times lately that there seems to be a  
bit of an artificial line length limit on the posts.

I wonder if there is something about the way I enter them, but  
randomly pulling up some posts it seems pretty consistent.

I wondered if it is a google limitation. So I googled line length and  
didnt really come up with any discussions on the subject, but did find  
this post

[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/e0e73972c4e54f4f?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/e0e73972c4e54f4f?hl=en)

Which has some full length lines. So there must be a way of doing it,  
I just wonder how?

Perhaps I should ask Rachel

Tonypm

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**Author:** ![tonypm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@tonypm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tonypm)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-length-limit-in-posts/171091/2 "2009-06-27T13:54:37Z")

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On 26 Jun 2009, at 04:34, Tonypm wrote:

> It has occurred to me several times lately that there seems to be a  
> bit of an artificial line length limit on the posts.
> 
> I wonder if there is something about the way I enter them, but  
> randomly pulling up some posts it seems pretty consistent.

I think Some mail clients will wrap things to 80 characters or so (or  
may do so when displaying messages)

Fred

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**Author:** ![tonypm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@tonypm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tonypm)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/line-length-limit-in-posts/171091/3 "2009-06-29T10:49:23Z")

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Sorry should have said I access the forum via browser on  
[groups.google.com](http://groups.google.com)

Tonypm