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From: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: why do editors "shrink-wrap" the text?
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Date: 7 Apr 89 20:43:42 GMT
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In article <22669@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> gast@cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes:
>In article <1706@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>>How does everyone like the idea of formatting paragraphs in this manner:
>
>>  When you type in a paragraph, lines which continue get a SPACE character
>>appended to them.  The last line of a paragraph and non-paragaph lines may not
>>contain spaces after them (I.E. this indicates "hard CRs").  This way, a
>>"global reformat paragraph" command can work and WYSIWYG-like editing which
>>automatically reformats paragraphs can be done on normal text files.
>
>This is not a good idea for general use.  It assumes that you are using
>a word processing package like WORD* (that is a Kleene Star).  I do not
>want to use a WYSIWYG text formatting program.

No no, I didn't make myself clear and you misunderstood.   I'm thinking of
writting an editor which does this-  the idea being that appending some extra
spaces to paragraph continuation lines won't screw up any other programs
(news, for example) but will allow the editor to do automatic paragraph
reformatting a la WYSIWYG.


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