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   From: theise@panix.com   
      
   On 15 Jan 2022 13:20:47 GMT,   
     Frank Slootweg  wrote:   
   >  Peter J Ross  wrote:   
   > > On 2022-01-09, Ted Heise  wrote:   
   > > >   smw  wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > >> 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.   
   > >   
   > > slrn's pager wraps (if wrapping is desired) at the edge of the   
   > > screen or window, not at "a user-settable column". I'm not   
   > > sure why a user would want to set a column for wrapping.   
   >   
   >    Does slrn do *word*-wrapping or just 'character'-wrapping,   
   >  i.e. 'folding' the line at the end of the window?   
   >   
   >    My newsreader is tin and its pager (at least the one in this   
   >  very old version) does not wrap long lines. But my 'terminal'   
   >  (actually a (Windows) 'Command Prompt' window) does   
   >  'character'-wrapping at the edge of the window. I would like if   
   >  the tin pager could do word-wrapping.   
      
   The w command in slrn article reading mode wraps text by word.   
      
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   Ted Heise             West Lafayette, IN, USA   
      
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