Re: [vile] Columns and linewrap

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Paul Fox wrote:

> paul van tilburg wrote:
> >
> > I use vile in a terminal that is 90 chars wide.  However, I always
> > insert/edit with wrapwords on so my lines are never wider than
> > 80 chars.
> > However, sometimes I co-author documents with others that use
> > the paradigm where a newline is a new paragraph, not a new line.
> > For me, by default, these lines look enormously long, so I
> > turn linewrap on for these documents.  Two questions remain:
> >
> >  * Can I make linewrap also respect the 80 char boundary so that
> >    lines by others look like my lines.
> >  * Can I make linewrap do wordwrapping.. that is not cut a word
> >    in two if the 90 (or preferebly 80) char boundary is reached?
>
> hi paul -- tom will have to confirm, but i'm pretty sure the
> answer to both of these is (unfortunately) "no".  the second,

uh - right (I didn't notice the "lines by others" part).

> especially, might actually be worth a new mode.  or, perhaps
> something could be done with read- and write-hooks to convert
> "newline means end of paragraph" text to "newline means end of
> line" and back, on input and output.

I'm not sure I follow this (am thinking...)


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