On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Scott Ritchie wrote: [...]
Howso? Putting in arbitrary carriage returns and 8 manual white-spaces makes it significantly harder to edit the text a second time through.
Long lines make diffs useless. If you change even a single character the diff will only show that the whole paragraph (possibly 20 'lines' or more) changed. This prevents other Wine contributors from further reviewing changes which is very bad.