On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We talked about this peripherally as I am using bbedit as my editor
for slrn and I was trying to figure out how to post-process the file
to wrap the text. This avenue dead-ended though as everything I
tried either wrapped the headers as well, destroying the message, or
re-wrapped the quoted material incorrectly, messing up the quoting.
for example, if I select the entire post's body
<<<QUOTE
> this
> is a sample of some quoted text that is spaced out over a few lines
> and is more than 72 characters
And here is my reply which is also over seventy-two characters in
length, but just.
QUOTE;
and then I rewrap it within BBEdit
Which command are you using?
Hard Wrap will just hard wrap everything.
Rewrap Quoted Text is quote sensitive (and will work on unquoted
blocks too.)
So, I cannot simply select the entire body of the post to rewrap. I
only want the NEW content to be wrapped.
Another solution (which may not work since it will touch the original
content if it is longer than the wrap limit) is to select all then
choose "Add Line Breaks". This will put a hard line break at every
softwrap point. (Or you could be more selective about which lines get
this treatment by invoking a custom script.)
This is still a manual process unless you automate in some way beyond
the bare `bbedit` tool.
Well, yes, that SOUNDS like the best solution, but as you can see,
the issue of wrapping is not that cut-and-dried and this would take
a rather smart script.
A simple implementation via script might be to just ignore lines that
begin with >. (That still may have undesirable effects on your
headers, so they might need another special case.)
Still, it seems rather a long way to go for something that, as far
as I can tell, every CLI editor has and would take simply having
some way to tell bbedit "use hard wrap instead of softwrap" since
other than that, bbedit/BBEdit behave exactly like I want.
`bbedit` isn't a command line editor, just (extremely convenient) glue
to the GUI app, which doesn't have the feature that will automatically
hard-wrap new content as you type.
Jim
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