Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify!Unify.com!grp From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Mailtool line wrap Message-ID: <1991Mar10.124347@Unify.com> Date: 10 Mar 91 20:43:46 GMT References: <1529@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> <1991Feb28.110513.6820@hellgate.utah.edu> <9902@discus.technion.ac.il> Sender: news@Unify.Com (news admin) Reply-To: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 34 In article <9902@discus.technion.ac.il>, devil@techunix.BITNET (Gil Tene) writes: > > To all you Open Lookers complaining about line(word) wrap in Mailtool > and other textsw based applications under Openwindows : > > From xview(1) (VERY long man page...) : > > Resource: text.lineBreak > Values: Clip, Wrap_char, Wrap_word (Wrap_word) > Description Determines how the textsw treats file lines > when they are too big to fit on one display > line. > > I Guess this just about says it all, and yes, I have tested it and > it works fine (Clip doesn't really clip well, but Wrap_char works > allright). So, all you need to do is add the following line to your > private .Xdefaults file: > The general complaint, is not that it doesn't work, but that it doesn't insert a newline. That makes wrapped text next to impossible to read in a non-XView text field. > text.lineBreak: Wrap_char > > -- Gil. > -- devil@techunix.technion.ac.il to go to sleep in the morning." -- -- --- Greg Pasquariello grp@unify.com Unify Corporation Be good and never poison people