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Hey Mike!

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:11:06 -0500, you wrote:

 > I am using NANO now for myself as it seems to do what I want.  The users
 > will be stuck with the internal editor.

Not sure how you run nano, but feel free to try uncommenting these options in
.nanorc and let me know what you think (while leaving the rest commented):

set atblanks     - wraps while preserving word boundaries
set constantshow - shows cursor position
set softwrap     - utilize your entire screen width when writing
                   somewhat of a format=flowed option.

Seems to make BBS/FTN messaging look nice on my end, anyway. You could even go
so far as do some syntax highlighting to make quoted text, tear/origin lines
different colors from the regular text.

While I think vi(m) is a great editor for programming, I think nano is /much/
better suited for this hobby specifically, as far as writing and replying to
text messages goes. Then again, I prefer nano over vi(m) any time, so that's
probably a pretty biased opinion. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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