Subj : smartphone for ui dif
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Accession
Date : Tue Dec 09 2025 17:11:30

Hey Dumas!

On Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:29:50 -0500, you wrote:

 > It isn't a nano issue.  There is something "funny" that goes on when
 > trying to pick lines to quote in synchronet, before you ever get to the
 > editor, when trying to quote messages with "run-on lines."

Ah, I think I know what you're referring to. I would think once it is turned into quoted text, it shouldn't be a single wrapped line any more.

Just set the editor to dump the entire quoted text to a file, and load it when you execute nano. If you use "set fill 72" in .nanorc, you can go to the first character of a long line and hit "Ctrl-J" to wrap the text for you.

 > I did some testing.  If you have the internal editor picked, the
 > synchronet lines-to-quote chooser seems to wrap the lines and give
 > "correct" lines numbers, i.e. if you pick to quote lines 5-10, you will
 > get 5-10.

 > If you have an external picked, and are set up to allow you to choose
 > the lines to quote before the editor is invoked, the synchronet
 > lines-to-quote chooser does not wrap the lines properly and, if the
 > message is very long at all, the numbers you are shown on the screen do
 > not actually correspond to the line numbers.  So, choosing what looks
 > like 5-10 will not quote the lines you think it will... in the case of
 > your message, my choice of lines to quote left me with a couple of
 > mostly blank ones.

That may be something to let Rob know about. Maybe it should wrap the text properly before allowing you to choose the lines to quote?

Other than that, every external editor that you choose to quote while in the editor itself, will wrap the text for you. If Rob considers the above normal behavior, you can work around it by selecting to quote the entire message when the editor loads and drop it to a file as I mentioned above. As for your users, it may also assist in wrapping the text properly while in the editor itself.

 > So probably not an issue that is affecting the newbs, and probably 
 > doesn't affect many others.  Just the few that might choose to allow 
 > for choosing lines to quote before firing up an external editor like 
 > nano.
 > ;)

Dump the entire quoted text to a file, then load that file with nano. It's much easier to edit the quoted text once it's there in front of you.

Ctrl-K cuts/removes entire lines
Ctrl-U pastes those removed lines if you wish
Ctrl-J justifies paragraphs to the "set fill X" config option

Regards,
Nick

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