Re: [vile] Columns and linewrap

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I use vile in a terminal that is 90 chars wide.  However, I always
> insert/edit with wrapwords on so my lines are never wider than
> 80 chars.
> However, sometimes I co-author documents with others that use
> the paradigm where a newline is a new paragraph, not a new line.
> For me, by default, these lines look enormously long, so I
> turn linewrap on for these documents.  Two questions remain:
>
> * Can I make linewrap also respect the 80 char boundary so that
>   lines by others look like my lines.
> * Can I make linewrap do wordwrapping.. that is not cut a word
>   in two if the 90 (or preferebly 80) char boundary is reached?

That could be implemented, as Paul notes.  I _think_ that it could be done 
all in display.c, as a further layer on top of the existing logic that 
calls mk_to_vcol, dot_to_vcol, etc.

(at the moment I'm working on the fixes for locale, so it doesn't need
two locales installed - hoping to complete that today)

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