Subject: Re: bug#18001: default behavior changes
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Joel F Rodriguez <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:51:49 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: "Joel F Rodriguez" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:31:22 -0700
> 
> Since when is a ssl session considered a text terminal?

Since about forever.

> My observations is somehow the behavior is different, I've been using these
> tools for what, 30 years?

Then perhaps there's a misunderstanding.

> Anyone that runs putty for a remote ssl shell knows that the display width
> is set by the width of the  window which you can make any size.

Yes, and that's exactly what we've been saying.  Which means if your
terminal emulator (PuTTY, presumably) window is wider than 80 columns,
Emacs will display a window that is wider than 80 columns.