Subject: Re: problems with pico

From: [email-masked] (Matt Messina)
Date: 9 Feb 1995 06:36:02 GMT

Liam Relihan <[email-masked]> wrote:
)[email-masked] (Timothy J Luoma) writes:
>>pico insists on wrapping what IT arrogantly calls "overlong" lines.   
>>This is a problem when dealing with lines of my incredibly ugly code  
>>that relies on "overlong" lines.
>>
>>Is there any way to fix/prevent this (or another editor I can use  
>>which doesn't do this)?
>
>Invoke pico with the "-w" option.

Wrong.  Did you try this?  

The "-w" option turns off word wrap (automatically moving words to the
next line when you get the end of a line).  It has no effect on what Pico
thinks are lines that are too long.  Try editing your .newsrc (which 
often has long lines) with Pico and you'll see it divide the long lines.  
-- 
Matt Messina
[email-masked]