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From: wa8tzg@nucleus.UUCP (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.editors,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Folding Editor - Comments Anyone?
Summary: Wrap margin or horizontal scroll?
Keywords: Request for comments
Message-ID: <5426@nucleus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 89 18:35:14 GMT
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Organization: The Nucleus Public Access Unix, Clarkston, MI
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While horizontal scrolling is a very good idea for terminals used in
writing code (especially when compilers allow long lines of 512 characters
or more) it would seem less useful when writing documentation or other
text  primarily oriented toward human readability especially when the
output will be sent to a printer of some sort that probably will not
support horizontal scrolling.

Could there not be a configurable/toggled wrap margin so that word wrap
could be enabled when useful and disabled when horizontal scrolling is the
best way to go?  Being able to set what column is the wrap margin (ala' vi)
would also be very helpful.

I'm looking forward to seeing FOLDED soon and will port it to a couple of
HP 9000's (300 & 800) ASAP!

Bill Meahan     wa8tzg%nucleus.UUCP@mailgw.cc.umich.edu