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       Thread[.post]: 4.12
       TACKER:  peteyboy (Pete)
       SUBJECT: .. Editing for readability
       DATE:    01-Jul-26 18:40:44
       HOST:    ryo
       
       sjlawson funny, I've been running into the same issue. Specifically, if you 
       edit files after they've been fold(1)ed, you can end up with a weird 
       stairstep effect which you don't want.
       
       'fmt' solves this by re-linking the line below if it fits.
       
       
       However, I found in my use case is that 'fmt' is file-wide and so it will 
       slurp up say, bullets, and other text you DON'T want folded like that.
       
       
       This makes things like:
       
       * one
       * two
       * three
       
       suddenly 
       * one * two * three 
       
       :<
       
       I am trying to make text files to be served by the nex:// protocol 
       
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       This makes things like:
       
       * one
       * two
       * three
       
       suddenly 
       * one * two * three 
       
       :<
       
       I am trying to make text files to be served by the nex:// protocol 
       (nightfall express protocol, see http://nightfall.city for details), and 
       struggling with how text files look on GUI browsers, specifically Lagrange.
       
       My current solution, as a 'nano' user, is I can open files with the --fill 
       # flag-- I am using 'fill 50'--and then manually ctl-j to justify 
       paragraphs that I edit. This saves my bullet points and weird text 
       formatting I want to preserve.
       
       (I like nex in that its basically the same as gopher but with a sane index 
       syntax replacing gophermap menu syntax; it doesn't do everything that 
       gopher menus do, but I am just serving up text content)
       
       (I probably should just give in and use gemini, but I'm attracted to how 
       simple nex is, I wrote my own client and use zilog's server made with socat 
       and shell)
       
       
       
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