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On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:14:44PM -0400, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> I'm running into the same problem under BL3 that Mikkel did some time ago: 
> I need an editor that does wordwrap. e3 is 

I might have to reneg on this. Being an impatient sort, I went ahead and 
downloaded Pine (and discovered in the process 
that the package was not as big as I thought it might be). Well, wordwrapping 
is certainly easier on the brain when 
looking at a file you're editing that may have some long lines in it, but mgp 
doesn't seem to like it at all. It wants 
to break the line when displaying the text wherever it break in the 
wordwrapping editor. I can of course address this 
by putting the %cont tag on a seprate line wherever the line wraps. That's 
kind of tedious though and, depending on 
where I might try editing the file again (e.g., at a different screen 
resolution), the wrapping could end up being 
different than it is on this machine.

Thus, it seems a better solution might be a pseudo-wordwrapping editor, if 
there is such a thing. In other words, an 
editor that wraps text only on the display but not in the file itself. I 
suppose another option would be to let pico 
make end of line breaks where it will, then run a script on the file that 
takes out those end of line breaks. But then 
you're back to sqaure one if you ever want to open and edit the file again.

Any suggestions on how to deal with this problem anyone? Any 
pseudo-wordwrapping editors out there that might work 
under BL?

Thanks,
James