Subject: Re: no wrap

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 12:48:54 -0400

On 1996-10-09 [email-masked] said

   |Heres an option I would like to see added to pine  -w
   |which will make the editing behave like pico, no wrap at all.

There is an option in Pine to change the length of the lines before
word-wrapping. Can you not simply change this to a large number, and then
change it back afterwards?

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From: [email-masked] (Bev)
Date: 15 Oct 1996 05:07:30 GMT

| On 1996-10-09 [email-masked] said
|    |Heres an option I would like to see added to pine  -w
|    |which will make the editing behave like pico, no wrap at all.

WAG:  Isn't there someting in the .pinerc about which editor to use? 
Maybe specifying pico -w would work... 

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From: John Andrea <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:47:03 -0300 (ADT)

> change it back afterwards?

Nope, the max is 80

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From: Timothy Luoma <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:32:48 -0400 (EDT)

the -w feature for pico has never worked for me (but we are talking very
long lines) in either NeXTStep or Linux.

TjL

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:37:24 +0800 (GMT)

> > change it back afterwards?

	If you "really" want that behaviour you can change the definition
of "#define MAX_FILLCOL     80" in the os.h file.  

	Ed

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From: Gregor J Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:41:21 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Edward M Greshko wrote:

 | On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, John Andrea wrote:
 | 
 | > > There is an option in Pine to change the length of the lines before
 | > > word-wrapping. Can you not simply change this to a large number, and then
 | > > change it back afterwards?
 | > 
 | > Nope, the max is 80
 | 
 | 	If you "really" want that behaviour you can change the definition
 | of "#define MAX_FILLCOL     80" in the os.h file.  

Well, sorry about the suggestion. I was replying from home, where I
don't have access to the pine help file. Silly me, I know. It is nice to
know that I was getting close, though.

But, does this mean that even if one can invoke "pico -w" as an
alternative editor, pine will still restrict the line length to 80 or less
characters after composing, unless the program is reconfigured 
(recompiled?). I would try these, if I could, but unfortunately I don't
have access to do so, and PCPine won't let me use an alternate editor.

Yours

Gregor
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