On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:49:07 +0100, Marck D Pearlstone
<ma...@silverstones.com> wrote:

>Dear Ac,
>
>@24-Aug-2009, 21:11 -0700 (25-Aug 05:11 here) AC [A] in
>mid:t5o695t0hjcsj5ikdtgls8h3hbcv4h1...@4ax.com said:
>
>... <snip>
>A> All I want to do is to have automatic wrapping and to be able to press
>A> the Enter key ONCE and start a new line.  I just don't understand why
>A> the developers and users are opposed to this.
>
>There is a very simple explanation.
>
>In microed, you are editing plain text ready to send. That's what it
>does and what it was always designed to do. There is no character in
>the ASCII set used for microed that can be used as an 'un-wrappable
>end of line'.
>
>A CR/LF is at the end of every visible line. Only 2 in a row can
>denote an unwrappable line.
>
>In autoformat, it is 2 CR/LFs that show when to stop recalculating the
>position of the embedded CR/LFs within a paragraph.
>
>So AC, the opposition you encounter to this idea is not a pedantic or
>resistive one, but entirely a technical one.

Thank you for the response, it is informative and helpful.


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