Re: [vile] Columns and linewrap

[Paul Fox]

thomas wrote:
 > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Paul Fox wrote:
 > 
 > > paul van tilburg wrote:
 > > >  * Can I make linewrap do wordwrapping.. that is not cut a word
 > > >    in two if the 90 (or preferebly 80) char boundary is reached?
 > >
 > > 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...)
 > 

it was a half-baked idea, and might not work.

if it were separate programs, one might do:
    $ convert_text --nl_is_eol filename
    $ vi filename
    $ convert_text --nl_is_eop filename

if one could do that with read-hook and write-hook, it might be
interesting.  that's all i meant.

paul
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