Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!cbnews!cbema!las From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: why do editors "shrink-wrap" the text? Message-ID: <5560@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Apr 89 14:28:23 GMT References: <1686@wpi.wpi.edu> <97499@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant) Lines: 24 In article gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes: }landauer@morocco.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer) writes: }} -- P.S. does gnuemacs have a mode where it works [as detailed in my previous }} article, where whitespace is freely mungeable to match cursor }} motion]? }Yes, picture-mode. It appears that many of the motion commands will work in }other modes as well. The picture-mode macros silently fill lines out to the cursor position with whitespace characters whenever you move the cursor beyond the end of a line. (Well, not quite silently, the "buffer-modified" flag is turned on so that it shows on the status line that you've made a change). I would prefer that the fill operation be postponed until I actually type some data. In my "spare" time (ha!) I hope to rewrite the macros to support this if it is possible. Has anyone already done this or something like it? regards, Larry -- Signed: Larry A. Shurr (att!cbnews!cbema!las) Clever signature, Wonderful wit, Outdo the others, Be a big hit! - Burma Shave (With apologies to the real thing. The above represents my views only.) (Please note my mailing address. Mail sent to me on cbnews doesn't make it.)