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tedunangst on Aug 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubuntu Bug 255161: Openoffice can’t print on Tuesd...

I'm cynically inclined to believe it's there to identify people who can't read the source to discover the cutoff is 300 characters.

chrisseaton on Aug 13, 2014 [–]

But it also has this warning for plain text files - so it's not just about source code where 300 lines is indeed quite long. However 300 characters is very short for a paragraph of text, if you aren't manually wrapping your plain text.

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