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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BinHex
Message-ID: <1741@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 15:03:58 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.1741
Posted: Thu Nov 12 15:03:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 03:48:25 EST
References: <1868@dasys1.UUCP> <13066@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <228@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <228@cunixc.columbia.edu> lih@cunixc.columbia.edu
	   (Andrew Lih) writes:

>The reason why some people cannot read Ray Lau's messages is
>because he uses the vi editor and lets the editor do the autowrap
>for him.  I also have the problem of not being able to read his
>messages using UNIX 'rn', but I can read them in EMACS.

>Ray seems to be the only person who has this problem, so is there
>a problem with the way his UNIX is handling sending the message or
>is it that no one else here uses the vi editor?

I have been known to use vi as an editor (I work in 3 different UNIX
environments for a total of 4 versions of Emacs {Quintus and Lucid, I hate
you sometimes} ) and am using it now to prove the point.

Vi wraps fine, provided you tell it to do so.  (:set wm=5) tells it to break to
a new line when a word is started within 5 characters of the right margin.  You
do need to have set the right margin at something reasonable, like 72 or 79
(you figure it out ;-) ).  There are a few strange things that vi can do to/for
you, but it *can* be made to work acceptably.  It's not Emacs, or Laser Author
for that matter, but the problems apparent in Ray Lau's messages are more likely
to be the usage of one or more parts of his environment, than the parts
themselves.  It's a poor workman who blames his tools, and all that!

Robert_S

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