It's really a no-brainer I think. Anyone trying it out would quickly agree that it is what you would expect and what you would want.
The impact of the proposed change would be for people that are using the Line wrapping mode.
I am not familiar with the mailing list, but eventually it could only be decided on by someone in authority. Like I said before, I didn't bring this up for myself, I just changed the settings. But it took me months of frustration, I only just discovered it when I was going to request it as a feature. Not all new users are going to quickly discover this setting, it's just a better default for everybody, that's all I came to say.
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