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   Rockinghorse Winner to Ted Heise   
   Re: nn (was: Replace Google Groups with    
   13 Jan 22 12:52:01   
   
   XPost: news.software.readers   
   From: Rockinghorse@amgen.com   
      
   On 2022-01-09, Ted Heise  wrote:   
   >   
   > [added news.software.readers]   
   >   
   >   
   > On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:54:06 -0000 (UTC),   
   >   smw  wrote:   
   >>  In    
   >>  Aaron W. Hsu  writes:   
   >>   
   >> >I have a number of things that I want to do to enhance NN a   
   >> >bit, foremost among them being Unicode support.   
   >   
   > I add my thanks to those of others.  I don't use nn myself, but   
   > greatly appreciate the efforts of anyone maintaining programs of   
   > value to the community.   
   >   
   >   
   >>  That would be a huge help, and I've been thinking of trying it   
   >>  myself for a while but have never found the time.   
   >>   
   >>  The other item on my wish list is to convert quoted-printable   
   >>  text to UTF automatically, with an option to force line   
   >>  wrapping at a user-settable column (because flowed paragraphs   
   >>  in QP present as a single line with many hundreds of   
   >>  characters).   
   >   
   > For what it's worth, slrn does this with the command "w" (for   
   > "wrap" I suppose) while reading articles.  Maybe knowing what to   
   > look for in that code would simplify using some of it?  I could be   
   > way off base here, having only ever glanced at sources.   
   >   
      
   I remember using nn and liking it for it's speed and extensive key bindings.   
   However, not wrapping long lines would be a deal breaker. Does it really not   
   have this capability..?   
      
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