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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: autowrapping terminals
Message-ID: <3034@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 20:32:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 20:32:47 1984
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>    > As to people who want a 99% solution with 10% of the code, I
>    > wish you the best of luck.  ...
>
>    Actually, a 99% solution with virtually no code is to set up
>    your screen-oriented programs so they simply *don't* *use* the
>    last column of the screen.  Sure, it's a waste, but in practice
>    it seldom bothers people.  The U of T paginator program, "p",
>    wrapped lines one character short for just this reason, and it
>    was years before anybody noticed.
>

Yeah, that's what I've done in a file-viewing program I'm writing
for a DEC-20.  I've since become more sensitive to the problems of
dealing with files that have lines wider than the screen.  Don't
forget that you can't just spit out W-1 characters, because some
of those characters may be Tabs.  Also, you have to keep track of
when you do lines that take up more than one line on the screen so
that you don't try to put too many on the screen.  And I just wanted
a little program to look at files bigger than those Emacs could deal
with....
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Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh