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   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > Rockinghorse Winner  wrote:   
   >   
   > >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..?   
   >   
   > Good heavens.   
   >   
   > First starting on Usenet in the '90s, my newsreader called the text   
   > editor of my choice for use in the composer. I used the original vi.   
   > Much later, I switched to vim. I had to enter my own line boundary   
   > within paragraphs. It was just like using a typewriter. It was something   
   > I was used to.   
      
     AFAICT, Rockinghorse Winner is talking about wrapping text while   
   *reading* - not composing - articles. At least he responded to Ted   
   Heise, who wrote:   
      
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   For what it's worth, slrn does this with the command "w" (for   
   "wrap" I suppose) while reading articles.   
      
      
      
     See also Lewis' response talking about wrapping while reading   
   articles.   
      
     FWIW, I also would like my newsreader - tin - to wrap too long lines   
   while reading articles, but AFAIK it's pager is fixed/built-in. But as a   
   use a very old version, I may be wrong.   
      
   > If I add text within a line, I have to reformat the paragraph and call a   
   > separate paragraph formatter. I usually use fmt but there are others.   
      
     As Lewis mentions, vim can wrap during composing and vim can rewrap a   
   paragraph after editing it, but using fmt is of course perfectly fine.   
   I was doing that when I still had vi, not vim.   
      
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