On Mon, 2009-08-24, AC wrote: > All I want to do is to have automatic wrapping and to be able to press > the Enter key ONCE and start a new line. I just don't understand why > the developers and users are opposed to this.
I think that you need to understand the architecture of the MicroEd to see that this is asking for two conflicting things that would make major changes to the basic concepts of MicroEd. First, the concept of a paragraph in MicroEd is a block of text separated from the preceeding and following text by at least one blank line. Second, Alt-L says "reformat the paragraph containing the cursor". To do this, MicroEd finds the preceeding and following blank lines to determine the "paragraph". It then reformats that paragraph (left justified). Third, setting automatic wrapping essentially means "do an Alt-L after each keystroke". Notice that a single Enter keystroke does not create a blank line and the implied Alt-L effectively sucks the contents of the supposed new line of text into the text above, since MicroEd doesn't find a blank line to end the current paragraph. I personally suspect that this exact problem may be what caused the developers to throw up their hands at some point in the past and decide that just doing a Windows style editor was the way to solve the problem for people that wanted what you're asking for. (I could be wrong!) BTW, my Windows editor seems to color quoted text appropriately. -- Bill McQuillan <[email protected]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.9.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
