One sentence per line
Written on 2026-01-18
A few months back, I started writing one sentence per line in my text documents (mostly Markdown). This was inspired by reading the following articles:
This has been successful for me, for the following reasons:
- It has the upside of hard wrapping that lines do not get excessively long.
- It does not have the downside of hard wrapping that changes within a paragraph generate noisy diffs.
- It has the upside of soft wrapping of not requiring collaborators to properly reformat paragraphs when making edits.
- It does not have the downside of soft wrapping of making editing more cumbersome.
- It makes easy to spot sentences that may either be too short or too long.
Maybe consider giving it a shot?