Subj : Re: this split is limited to -b 2000m
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Thu Nov 14 2024 18:46:14

Hello Maurice,

On Wed, Nov 13 2024 16:26:25 -0600, you wrote:

> Best of them thus far, not counting the vim one which allows the end user to
> decide what is 'proper' word wrapping.  It seems to me that you had nano
> doing this as well and to be honest I think that would be most suitable to
> the DOS-think types.  I need to have another looksee of the latest nano.

I don't believe nano can word wrap on the fly with any kind of key combination (as compared to 'gq' in vim). It's more of a configuration setting that does it when you envoke the editor.

However, with long, unwrapped lines.. even if you softwrap with nano, it's still a long line. So if you quote that line, it it will only place one quote character at the beginning of the paragraph (since it's still one line).

Vim will wrap where you want it to, as well as include the quote character at the beginning of each wrapped line. Pretty impressive, I might say!

> At my age I'd be more than happy if I break out even.  :-/

Hopefully there's plenty of good years left to keep those numbers up. :)

Regards,
Nick

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