[9fans] Re: line wrapping

[Uriel <lost.goblin@gmail.com>]

On 2/2/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>
> uriel rsc9: is there any reason for the wraping of lines
>           at 80 chars in wikifs?  why not let acme wrap lines
>           to whatever the window size is?  (I have seen this also
>           in irc7, and I still don't understand why, to me it
>           seems like an annoying misfeature, but I guess there
>           has to be a reason for it)
>
> acme line wrapping is a last resort.
> it wraps mid-word and looks ugly.
Maybe acme should know how to do word-wrapping? Or is there a reason for it not
to?

Acme is already word-aware for double-click selection, so it's not so
much of a philosophical breach; only problem I see is that it might
make hard
to know if the line break is in the file or inserted by acme, but that
problem already exists, any ideas about how to mark line wrapping?

I have seen quite a few apps that do word warping on their own just
because they are intended to run inside acme , and usually with less
than ideal results(eg., irc7)

uriel

>
> it is true that Wiki itself should
> be doing the line wrapping, but unless
> you want to write that code, i would
> just leave the wrapping in wikifs.
>
>