Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: need FAQ for OpenLook Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 14:01:55 GMT References: <1779@lkbpyr.UUCP> <1991Mar21.095120@Unify.com> <1991Mar26.122443@Unify.com> Sender: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 24 In-reply-to: dgh@Unify.com's message of 26 Mar 91 20:24:43 GMT In article <1991Mar26.122443@Unify.com> dgh@Unify.com (David Harrington) writes: > Don't forget the one about TextEdit not inserting newlines when it does > wordwrap. This comes up *all* the time here, and I have yet to see a > satisfactory answer (i.e. how to get it to work, or that it will be fixed). I realize there isn't a good answer, but this isn't a bug. It's more of a missing feature. When I cut text from a wide window, and paste it into a narrow window, I *don't* want the text reformated. likewise, when textedit/cmdtool does a word wrap, I *don't* always want new lines added. Doing this would break shell scripts in particular. It's like Emacs - sometimes it's in text mode, other times it's not. In text mode I want word wrap to add new lines. In other modes I do not. Perhaps this should be an option you can enable with an escape sequence: alias TextOn '/usr/5bin/echo "\033[>8h\c"' alias TextOff '/usr/5bin/echo "\033[>8l\c"' You can disable paging and scrolling with similar commands. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!crdgw1!barnett