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   Lewis to Frank Slootweg   
   Re: nn   
   16 Jan 22 01:08:20   
   
   XPost: news.software.readers   
   From: g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me   
      
   In message  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?   
      
   There are three (as I recall) options. One looks for an 'appropriate'   
   place to wrap.   
      
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