Re: [Nano-devel] wrapping behavior since 1.0.9

[David Lawrence Ramsey]

--- Chris Allegretta <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 08:37:30PM -0400, David Benbennick wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 03:51:03PM -0700, Chris Allegretta wrote:
>> > The word free and all the spaces will be dragged down to the next line. 
>> > 1.0.9 and previous I believe acted the way pico did.
>> 
>> I sent a patch on March 10 that changed do_wrap() a lot.  In the email, I
>> mentioned this new behavior:
>
>Yup, I'm completely out of it if it was that long ago.  I hadn't even 
>changed jobs yet back then, should have been paying attention.  
>
>I would have thought that Pico's behavior for this would be the desired
>behavior, why do you consider the old behavior a bug?  My primary
>concerns are being Pico "combatable" in places one wouldn't expect it
>(editing simple lines of text) will earn us a flood of bug reports once
>1.2 is stable, plus it annoys the hell out of me ;) 
>
>I'm certainly interested in hearing opinions on this, whoever might be
>listening out there, especially if anyone thinks I'm making a big deal 
>over nothing.  The new behavior definitely 'feels' odd though.

I hadn't really noticed the space-eating issue before, since
I don't usually (a) turn wrapping on and (b) add that much
space to a line.  Still, it sounds like a major annoyance;
I'd be for fixing it.

Mikko Ruuska brought up a similar wrapping issue a few days
ago, about how wrapping between words eats a space from the
end of the line in nano 1.1.10 but doesn't in Pico.  This is
only a minor annoyance, but I'd be for fixing it too; it
isn't that annoying when writing code, configuration files,
etc., but when typing up text for other things, which I've
been doing a bit more of lately, it is, because you have to
add a space every time you merge two lines together.  (Yes,
I know I could justify the paragraph, but if the
indentation is unusual, that isn't feasible.)

In other news, I've made a minor cleanup to the paragraph
searching patch and synced it with CVS, and I'm going to
start doing some complex testing of quote36b.patch today.
(The new screen update routines are working out fine,
afaict; however, I need to test how the color routines hold
up when using complex combinations of regexes.)


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