Re: Searching: console editor with soft-wrapping

From: Ed Hurst (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:13:55 -0600

jpd wrote:
> I mean, I really don't see what's so bad about linebreaks that you need
> extra features that somehow improve editing endless lines. Nevermind the
> breakage that you'll cause in other people's systems[2] (and on other
> people's screens[1]). Really, most sensible editors, and I consider that
> to include far, far more options that just nvi, already allow you to
> leave out the linebreaks. But why would you?

[groveling in the dust at the feet of a wrathful expert]

Forgive my impertinence sir. I write stuff that gets posted on fora
using various incarnations of PHP. If I paste in my article with
line-breaks, the software converts them into HTML line-breaks in the
page code. If I insert long longs, it wraps them dynamically to fit the
browser width. I have no control over the code these sites use. I was
hoping to offer at least one console editor that would accomodate this
in the project.

The plain text documents I store on my harddrive and share with others
are all broken at 72 columns. My own HTML code is composed the same way.
My limited experience with console editors has them all forcing newline
codes. In the documentation I will be writing for the project, there
will a guide that encourages such behavior. 

-- 
Ed Hurst
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