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|    Gleb Hlebov to Anton Shepelev    |
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|    29 Nov 23 09:13:14    |
      REPLY: 2:221/6.0 6565b2dc       MSGID: 2:5023/24.4222 6566c86d       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0400       Hello Anton,              An entity in disguise of Anton Shepelev (2:221/6) wrote to me:               AS> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2646              [...]              In other words... "It's complicated". :-)       This hard-wrap thing really is a mess. An ordinary user gets confused because       opinions differ so drastically.               AS> I for one invariable use hard-wrapped text because it is        AS> beautiful, device-independent, and widely supported by        AS> clients and text editors. It guarrantees my text looks the        AS> way I wrote it.              I can see. On occasions when I use tin (news client for GNU/Linux terminal) in       a window wider than 100 columns (usually it's 100 to 140, which is reasonable       having all this screen estate) all unwrapped lines just spread over to the       right border (and that alone sucks). To make matters worse, it doesn't seem to       have a word-wrap option, the only instance I've found in its config is       "wrap_column=XX" which obviously wraps all columns wider than XX, thus forcing       to break apart words too. Imagine when it does this with 2-char words, like       prepositions and such.               GH>> I know that Vim can do it (as I type this text) and this        GH>> is what I thought GoldED was capable of doing as well.        AS> Vim is in fact specifically /designed/ to work with with        AS> hard-wrapped text, whereas configuring it for soft wrapping        AS> takes extra effort and even then is not as comfortable.              I'm no Vim expert at all, but it is really powerful when it comes to text       manipulation of any kind. The ultimate downside is its concepts being "the       utter opposite of user-friendly", it has a ton of cryptic one-char commands       and its combinations that you either have to memorize or refer to a kind of       "cheat sheet" every now and then.               GH>> If you can set up your news reader to do the same it        GH>> would solve the issue with extra-long lines.        AS> My newsreader is already wrappeing long lines, but it does        AS> not help. They are too wide, forcing me to squeeze the        AS> window to get a comfortable line length.              At least you can "squeeze" it when you're using a GUI viewer, which doesn't       make sense with GoldED. Although it seems to work in a Linux terminal window       with most text-mode applications.                     --- GoldED+/W64-MSVC 1.1.5        * Origin: Type |
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