kk@shasta.tivoli.com (Kerry Kimbrough) (02/20/91)
Does anyone know a way to tell OpenWindows mailtool to insert newlines at line break while composing messages, instead of just wrapping at window's edge? I.e. sorta like Emacs auto-fill-mode? This defect makes email sent from a mailtool user very hard to read by anyone using any other mail reader, which in turn makes mailtool unusable in a community of Emac'ers. Regards, Kerry Kimbrough kk@tivoli.com
marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Ellis) (02/28/91)
The solution which I use is to use the "Format" menu option from the pull-down "Extras" menu. You can define your own "Extras" menu (check you Open Windows Documentation for details, or the man page for textedit.) Select your entire text (4 clicks), then select "Format" from the "Extras" menu. This will run the selected text through the Unix filter "fmt" which adds new lines at word boundaries. What column to cut at is a command line parameter to "fmt". I also use the "-s" option to "fmt" to keep tables and such intact. Hope this helps.
thompson@cs.utah.edu (William Thompson) (03/01/91)
>The solution which I use is to use the "Format" menu option from the >pull-down "Extras" menu... Sun REALLY needs to provide a better way to do this. I don't at all like having my view of a file in a Text Subwindow different than the actual format for the text, and I shouldn't have to take special action to put the two into conformance. Open Look needs a wrap option in Text Subwindows that affects both the display and the underlying text. William B. Thompson University of Utah
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (03/01/91)
In article <1991Feb28.110513.6820@hellgate.utah.edu> thompson@cs.utah.edu (William Thompson) writes: > Sun REALLY needs to provide a better way to do this. I don't at all like > having my view of a file in a Text Subwindow different than the actual > format for the text, and I shouldn't have to take special action to put the > two into conformance. Open Look needs a wrap option in Text Subwindows > that affects both the display and the underlying text. This can cause a lot of problems. There are times when it is very convenient to cut and paste between two different windows, and the line length remains the same. You can resize the window width, and redisplay the text at the new size. I am not sure how this can be done so that it always does what you want. I don't want the windows to change the formatting of the lines if I am cutting and pasting shell scripts. There are actually four different ways to solve the problem with mailtool, using current software: 1) Use the .text_extras_menu choice fmt. Select the text you want formated, and choose the menu item 2) You should be able to do the same thing by binding a function key to this function. Add the following to your .textswrc file: KEY_RIGHT(4) FILTER fmt Select the text and press the function key. 3) You could drag and drop. Get the catcher program. You can set up a catcher tool that allows you to drag text over to it, and it will format your text. Then drag it back. I started work on one that would optionally remove the indentation, reformat text, and add the indentation (or '> ') back to the text. 4) To do this automatically - which I do not recommend, you can set the variable "sendmail" in your .mailrc file to pipe all mail through a special command. This could be a script that would run fmt, and then call sendmail with the proper options. I don't think #4 is a good idea, because it could mung up programs bad. Cheers. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett
devil@techunix.BITNET (Gil Tene) (03/09/91)
To all you Open Lookers complaining about line(word) wrap in Mailtool
and other textsw based applications under Openwindows :
From xview(1) (VERY long man page...) :
Resource: text.lineBreak
Values: Clip, Wrap_char, Wrap_word (Wrap_word)
Description Determines how the textsw treats file lines
when they are too big to fit on one display
line.
I Guess this just about says it all, and yes, I have tested it and
it works fine (Clip doesn't really clip well, but Wrap_char works
allright). So, all you need to do is add the following line to your
private .Xdefaults file:
text.lineBreak: Wrap_char
HtH,
-- Gil.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) (03/11/91)
In article <9902@discus.technion.ac.il>, devil@techunix.BITNET (Gil Tene) writes: > > To all you Open Lookers complaining about line(word) wrap in Mailtool > and other textsw based applications under Openwindows : > > From xview(1) (VERY long man page...) : > > Resource: text.lineBreak > Values: Clip, Wrap_char, Wrap_word (Wrap_word) > Description Determines how the textsw treats file lines > when they are too big to fit on one display > line. > > I Guess this just about says it all, and yes, I have tested it and > it works fine (Clip doesn't really clip well, but Wrap_char works > allright). So, all you need to do is add the following line to your > private .Xdefaults file: > The general complaint, is not that it doesn't work, but that it doesn't insert a newline. That makes wrapped text next to impossible to read in a non-XView text field. > text.lineBreak: Wrap_char > > -- Gil. > -- devil@techunix.technion.ac.il to go to sleep in the morning." -- -- --- Greg Pasquariello grp@unify.com Unify Corporation Be good and never poison people