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From: aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Word wrap for ELM
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Date: 22 Sep 89 22:50:22 GMT
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larry@tapa.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
>I have not used profs myself but he said you could just keep typing and profs
>would break long lines into shorter ones on word boundries.  Now since
>keystrokes in profs are not interactive this implies some simple breaking of
>long lines into shorter ones after the file was entered.  Seems like this
>would be a nice feature for the builtin editor.

That sort of feature belongs in an external editor. The builtin editor 
should be no more functional than using mailx. Auto wrap is available
in vi, emacs, mg, etc etc.  Really people, elm is getting out of hand.
Remember KISS?

aem
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