Re: [vile] Fixed/flowed formatted text

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply!
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:45:26AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > I propose to introduce a new format mode "flowed" next to the current
> > > one which can be quite suitably called "fixed".  In the "flowed" format mode
> > > a (right)margin is set, possibly reusing the wrapmargin property
> > > that already exists, and text is automatically wrapped before that
> > > margin.  For example
> >
> > This sounds different from the display-only feature we discussed a year
> > ago (it would be simpler to implement, I think).
>
> Now that I finally wrote it down, it is becoming clearer the role
> that the wrapmargin setting plays in this.
> It is indeed display-only in the "combined" case; however in case
> "flowed" it should be a mostly matter of displaying but it should also
> disable wrapping in the sense that vile inserts hard breaks (which is
> unnecessary).
>
> > However - this would insert extra spaces to make vile wrap at certain
> > points.  Is that what you want?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this?

I was reading the description as if it were to insert spaces into the file 
(since you mentioned nvi), rather than to adjust the display.

For the display only - that can be (hasn't been...) implemented by 
extending the code that I used to avoid splitting multi-column characters 
across the right-margin.

(btw, I just realized I didn't update my tar ball in my temp-directory
for 9.7o).

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