Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!bridge2!mdb From: mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: characters past 80th column Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 17:39:40 GMT References: <5604@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Feb7.222553.5806@actrix.co.nz> Sender: news@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM Organization: 3Com Corp., Mountain View, CA. Lines: 49 In-reply-to: paul@actrix.co.nz's message of 7 Feb 90 22:25:53 GMT In article <1990Feb7.222553.5806@actrix.co.nz>, paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes: Paul> In article <5604@hydra.gatech.EDU> ae219dp@prism.gatech.EDU (Devon Prichard) writes: Devon> on about every fifth or so article I read, the text goes past Devon> the 80th column, and the last character spells out a whole Devon> sentence one character at a time. I'm using MS-Kermit in Devon> VT-100 mode on an XT clone, Herc graphics, logging onto a Devon> Sequent 81 unix box, in k-shell. I use "rn" to read Paul> MS-Kermit can fix the problem with: Paul> set term wrap on Paul> You can put it in your mskermit.ini file to make it automatic. Paul> I posted this rather than e-mailing, because it brings up a Paul> related problem: editors like emacs and vi, which I guess are Paul> the two most common editors used with USEnet, don't word wrap Paul> when they hit the right margin. Well, it depends on which Emacs and how it is configured. Under GNU Emacs, the use of M-x auto-fill-mode will make a particular buffer do word wrap (this entire paragraph was typed in without pressing the return key or doing a M-x fill-paragraph on it). It is also possible to configure your GNU Emacs to automatically use the auto-fill-mode on any new files or buffers or on a particular subset. Paul> DOes someone know of a PD editor which DOES wordwrap under UNIX Paul> Sys V? [...omitted...] GNU Emacs is not PD, but is freely available and might run on your box. Paul> Also, I would recommend setting the column width to 72 cols, to Paul> allow for overflow when quoting messages. Of course, using the 'supercite' package in GNU Emacs can also let you trivial reformat the paragraph to fit (as was done with the quotes above). Paul> Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz Just another GNU Emacs hacker, -- Mark D. Baushke mdb@ESD.3Com.COM