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> or make it so that you need to scroll left and right

That's the point.

If have an ASCII table that is 150 character columns wide, I'm sending you a screenshot so that you can scroll left and right, rather than have everything end up in a jumble of interleaved overflowing lines that turn into unreadable spaghetti.

This is a feature, not a bug. Not everyone is opening the message on a full-width monitor.



You can do the same with text. If your messaging client is lame and forces wrapping, copy and paste the text to a real text editor with left/right scroll and your font and color scheme and other preferences of choice.


When I send a message I want the recipient to be able to understand it immediately.

I don't want to make them have to jump through hoops to reformat the text in a different application. That's absurd.




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