Subject: Re: "pico -w" and long lines

From: [email-masked] (David Edwards)
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 95 12:49:54 GMT

David L Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:

> Pico can only read lines of 256 or less characters.  It can create lines
> of any (?) length though... 

Is this likely to be changed? Many people (including myself) use Pico as 
as an editor to go with Tin, to provide a consistent editing environment 
between news and mail. When following up to an article in a long thread, 
the References: header can get rather long, and Pico happily wraps it 
when the article is loaded in, meaning the two lines have to be manually 
joined to prevent all the headers getting messed up.

Surely if it can create longer lines while editing, it can't be that 
difficult to make it load them, too...?

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From: [email-masked] (David Edwards)
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 95 19:39:38 GMT

> difficult to make it load them, too...?

I wrote this a while back but still no reply...

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph H Allen)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 16:54:53 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,

>I wrote this a while back but still no reply...

You may wish to try my editor JOE (available by anonymous from ftp.std.com,
file: src/editors/joe2.8.tar.Z).  Joe includes 'jpico'- an improved version
of pico.  'jpico' does not have any line length restrictions and has many
other improvements (for example, the row and column number are displayed on
the status line and the paragraph reformatter can handle quoted news
matter).
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From: [email-masked] (Larry W. Virden)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:34:42 GMT

Note however that if Pico splits the References line at white space,
and starts the second thru nth line with white space, that the lines
need not be joined back together - that's a legit format for a news
header.
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