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   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   [openxp] Line wrap in message reader   
   17 Mar 22 08:52:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet fa835731   
   REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet fa7e8c7e   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32) (i386)   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   Hello August!   
      
   *** Wednesday 16.03.22 at 19:24, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    MF>>> Config -> Options -> Message Reader   
    MF>>> -----------------------------------   
    MF>>> +- Internal message reader options ------------+   
    MF>>> |                                              |   
    MF>>> |   [x]   Full screen                          |   
    MF>>> |   [x]   Display clock                        |   
    MF>>> |   [x]   Line break in column 80              |   
    MF>>> |   [x]   Show reference arrows                |   
    MF>>> |   [ ]   Fixed message header display         |   
    MF>>> |                                              |   
    MF>>> |   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           |   
    MF>>> |   [x]   Use UTF-8                            |   
    MF>>> |   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour    <<---------   
    MF>>> |   [ ]   Multi-coloured quotes                |   
    MF>>> |                                              |   
    MF>>> |   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     |   
    MF>>> |   [x]   AutoScrolling                        |   
    MF>>> |                                              |   
    MF>>> |   [ ]   Exit message reader with     |   
    MF>>> |                                              |   
    MF>>> |  Viewer for URLs  explorer                   |   
    MF>>> +----------------------------------------------+   
      
    MF>> Hmmmm, just spotted something which I've never noticed before:   
      
    MF>> As you can see, I have "Line break in column 80" enabled but it doesn't   
    MF>> seem to work on my display. I have the number of columns set to 100 in   
    MF>> my OpenXP config but lines don't wrap at column 80, they wrap at the   
    MF>> window edge(column 100).   
      
    MF>> Can you reproduce this?   
      
    AA> This is my setting:   
      
    AA> ÚÄ Internal message reader options ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿   
    AA> ³                                              ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   Full screen                          ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   Display clock                        ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   Line break in column 80              ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   Show reference arrows                ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   Fixed message header display         ³   
    AA> ³                                              ³   
    AA> ³   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   Use UTF-8                            ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour          ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   Multi-coloured quotes                ³   
    AA> ³                                              ³   
    AA> ³   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     ³   
    AA> ³   [x]   AutoScrolling                        ³   
    AA> ³                                              ³   
    AA> ³   [ ]   Exit message reader with     ³   
    AA> ³                                              ³   
    AA> ³  Viewer for URLs  firefox                    ³   
    AA> ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ   
      
    AA> I don't think the line break to in column 80 works!  I'll get   
    AA> messages that apparently don't have and soft-CRs in the message   
    AA> body and they continue to the full width of my OpenXP display   
    AA> window which is 100 as well.   
      
    AA> Lemme review a few older messages..   
      
    AA> [play the Jeopardy "thinking" tune]   
      
    AA> Nope. The messages still appear full width:   
      
    AA>    https://susepaste.org/42619945   
      
    AA> Is that what you mean?   
      
   Yes, that's exactly what I mean and thanks for confirming it.   
      
   See my netmail also.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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