Also, for me that 5x7 font is already almost illegible...

On 23/03/2008, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, what you are saying is usually true (that line lengths should
> usually not be too long). I mentioned the lp configuration file as an
> example (a particular one, thought, since there it was that I encountered
> the problem). Nonetheless, even if I had only a reasonable number of fields
> (say 5) and I had the field names (string comments) above the real
> field values, it could easily happen the lines would be wrapped if my window weren't big enough. The
> same happens even when viewing an ordinary program code, if the window is
> not large enough. Adjusting the window size or font size
> is one way to go, however, why should I be forced to do it, when it's by no
> way neccessary, had I the option to not wrap... All I want to see are the
> beginings of lines and should I decide to edit a particular line I had no
> problem moving to it and edit it.
>
> Another, even more compelling example is, when you want to look at some
> scientific data from some experiment. There it is quite common to have rows
> of data, each row having say 20 real
> numbers, each row meaning one 'step' of the experiment. With acme or sam,
> with/without your solution, you have no simple way of looking at it. Using
> Vim, it's an easy task, you can turn the wrapping off...
>
> Ruda
>
> On 23/03/2008, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the answer, although it did not please me... :(
> > > (In Vim, you only have to do :set nowrap and you are done... From time
> > to
> > > time I find this rather useful.)
> > > Ruda
> >
> >
> > it's unreasonable for the lp configuration file to need lines 200
> > characters long.
> > i would think it would make more sense to talk about addressing lp's
> > unreasonable
> > requirments rather than complaining about acme's lack of features.
> >
> >
> > - erik
> >
> >
> >
>