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> Think about what you're saying here. A line is a string of characters
> that ends with a special character (carriage return/line feed,
> whatever your O.S. likes to do).
I'm not a computer. I can't see \r  But when I have a string of 600
characters wrapped I can see multiple lines.

Word processors will move you up a screen line at a time. Vi (and the
patch) will move me up a paragraph at a time.

You do understand the difference ?


 > If I'm sitting at an 80-column terminal and I type 130 characters,

I don't use plan9 on an  80 column terminal.