Subj : Re: EDIT text editor
To   : William Mcbrine
From : Greg Sears
Date : Sat Nov 30 2002 04:56 pm

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 -=> Miles Maxted wrote to William McBrine <=-

 MM> disappointing for someone who likes to play with layout as required.
 WM>  ...
 MM> What would you suggest ?

 ::24 Nov 02  22:41:39, William Mcbrine wrote a Message to Miles Maxted::


 WM> I suggest that playing with the layout is a waste of time, and you
 WM> should stop worrying about it. Aside from that, it's the province of
 WM> the editor or the user, not the reader.

 WM> The word wrap function that's built into MultiMail is only there as a
 WM> kind of "last resort" to keep QWK doors from choking. (It's not
 WM> applied in Blue Wave mode, so you can write continuous paragraphs
 WM> there if you choose.) If you want to wrap at anything less than 80
 WM> columns -- which I highly recommend -- then you have to set that in
 WM> your editor, or do it manually.

   William Mcbrine, Talking about. . . . . . word wrap I use this setting..

# -----------------------
# MultiMail configuration
# -----------------------
 
Version: 0.43


# Wrap quoted text at this column width (including quote marks)
QuoteWrapCols: 77


It works very well with EDIT.com in a DOS window.



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