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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, mikkel meinike wrote:

> He!
> I would like a CLI editor that doe real word wrap, I tried several no
> and Jed I like very much but it does not really word wrap it pots in
> an line break at some point and than when you go back and change
> around in your text you have written (which I do a lot) the line
> breaking gets corrupted. I had on editor earlier (with debian) that
> did real word wrap in CLI, That was "ae" (Anthernys editor) I think.
> Has someone installed that editor on BL3, or does someone have an
> other solution?

David Moberg compiled dosemu which works in BL2 but not in BL3.
I got an older libc5 version of dosemu working in BL1 (similar to BL3) by 
first installing bash.  I posted information on how to do it maybe a year 
ago.

There was also a list discussion of DOS editors and wordprocessors.
I am now using VDE, freeware (no spell checker, that was shareware only), 
which word wraps.  So do several others which I tried but did not like as 
well - pedit, breeze, and I forget what else.

VDE works without the switch -V for VGA mode of dosemu (which most of the 
other DOS editors need to display properly, as do graphical programs such 
as Pictivew viewer and our little DOS CAD program), on my TTL monitor with 
an MGA card (or in VGA, of course).  It has lots of nice features, among 
them the ability to produce files in Wordperfect (4 or 5/6) and WORD and 
WORDSTAR format, so you can send other people files with formatting in 
them.  I don't know how to print with formatting in linux, just plain 
text, or pbm (netpbm) or pdf (ghostscript).

Abiword is a lot larger but works in BL3 out of the box with Xvesa (or in 
BL2 with regular X, or even with Xvesa if you add rgb.txt with added Black 
line).

For just plain linux editors without dosemu:

PICO can be made to wordwrap if you install a larger version than Steven 
provided (which is actually Nano, with some features not working).

JOE (comes with Slackware) will wordwrap and Ctrl-K, J reformats it so you 
don't need to do it manually.  (In Pico Ctrl-J does this, but in Joe it 
deletes to end of line).

I don't know Jed but look for a way to reformat after editing.

 >
> Thanks
> /Mikkel