Subj : [openxp] Line wrap in message reader
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Thu Mar 17 2022 08:52:00

Hello August!

*** Wednesday 16.03.22 at 19:24, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>>> Config -> Options -> Message Reader
 MF>>> -----------------------------------
 MF>>> +- Internal message reader options ------------+
 MF>>> |                                              |
 MF>>> |   [x]   Full screen                          |
 MF>>> |   [x]   Display clock                        |
 MF>>> |   [x]   Line break in column 80              |
 MF>>> |   [x]   Show reference arrows                |
 MF>>> |   [ ]   Fixed message header display         |
 MF>>> |                                              |
 MF>>> |   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           |
 MF>>> |   [x]   Use UTF-8                            |
 MF>>> |   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour    <<---------
 MF>>> |   [ ]   Multi-coloured quotes                |
 MF>>> |                                              |
 MF>>> |   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     |
 MF>>> |   [x]   AutoScrolling                        |
 MF>>> |                                              |
 MF>>> |   [ ]   Exit message reader with <Return>    |
 MF>>> |                                              |
 MF>>> |  Viewer for URLs  explorer                   |
 MF>>> +----------------------------------------------+

 MF>> Hmmmm, just spotted something which I've never noticed before:

 MF>> As you can see, I have "Line break in column 80" enabled but it doesn't
 MF>> seem to work on my display. I have the number of columns set to 100 in
 MF>> my OpenXP config but lines don't wrap at column 80, they wrap at the
 MF>> window edge(column 100).

 MF>> Can you reproduce this?

 AA> This is my setting:

 AA> ÚÄ Internal message reader options ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
 AA> ³                                              ³
 AA> ³   [x]   Full screen                          ³
 AA> ³   [x]   Display clock                        ³
 AA> ³   [x]   Line break in column 80              ³
 AA> ³   [x]   Show reference arrows                ³
 AA> ³   [x]   Fixed message header display         ³
 AA> ³                                              ³
 AA> ³   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           ³
 AA> ³   [x]   Use UTF-8                            ³
 AA> ³   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour          ³
 AA> ³   [x]   Multi-coloured quotes                ³
 AA> ³                                              ³
 AA> ³   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     ³
 AA> ³   [x]   AutoScrolling                        ³
 AA> ³                                              ³
 AA> ³   [ ]   Exit message reader with <Return>    ³
 AA> ³                                              ³
 AA> ³  Viewer for URLs  firefox                    ³
 AA> ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

 AA> I don't think the line break to in column 80 works!  I'll get
 AA> messages that apparently don't have and soft-CRs in the message
 AA> body and they continue to the full width of my OpenXP display
 AA> window which is 100 as well.

 AA> Lemme review a few older messages..

 AA> [play the Jeopardy "thinking" tune]

 AA> Nope. The messages still appear full width:

 AA>    https://susepaste.org/42619945

 AA> Is that what you mean?

Yes, that's exactly what I mean and thanks for confirming it.

See my netmail also.

Regards,
Martin

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