Re: flyspell + longlines: hang/wait

[Richard M. Stallman]

    I for my part, don't use grep or more on my LaTeX files very often.  
    But that'll be different for different people, and I respect that.
    I hope that eventually, tools like grep, wc and more will move on,  
    recognizing that there isn't one standard 65 or 80 character wide  
    terminal any more...

GNU programs such as grep and wc will handle lines of essentially any
length--to the extent that handling them is meaningful.  What they
cannot do is make a match in a "line" that is really a paragraph as
useful as a match in a line that is really a line.