On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:58:26 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> This nuisance you have reported has been commented on many
> times before.  There is most probably a reason why it should
> be so.  Now that we have a GPL version of Arachne there might
> some hope of fixing it.

There may be a reason, or it may be that it's just the way it
happened. Yes, now we have the GPL version other people may feel
inclined to take a look at it.
nd.dgi
>  IMHO, fixing this problem should go
> on the back burner for now because it is just a minor nuisance
> for those who are aware of the problem and know how to deal
> with it.  Also because some of the most minor nuisances are
> often among the most difficult to fix.
ote:
Anything that doesn't actually cause a fatal crash of the system could
be termed a minor nuisance.
te:
To me it is an irritation, and like most irritations if it happens often
enough it can become bl**dy annoying.
e:
One of the reasons that I use the external editor is because of the
failure of the automatic line wrap when there are any characters to the
right of the cursor. I realise that this is intentional but....
:
QEDIT (to use one example) overcomes this problem by wrapping the line
when the cursor goes beyond the preset right margin -- note that is the
CURSOR going past that point, so it is possible to create lines longer
than the RH margin without turning off the wrapping function.

And when an insertion is made to the middle of a line that pushes the 
end past the margin, QEDIT allows a reformatting of the whole paragraph 
by a single keystroke.

Another annoying thing about Arachne's internal editor is the business
of rewriting the text window every little while, which makes the screen 
look most peculiar until it settles down.

IMO this editor needs a lot of work.

from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
  "Queen City of the South"  34:55S  138:36E
http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm

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