Re: Replying to emails in pine refuses to word wrap

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Morris wrote:

:) On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Steve Hubert wrote:
:) 
:) > There is not an auto justify, though there is an obscure command to 
:) > justify the whole message. If you run the Search command (^W) there 
:) > will be a subcommand called (^U) FullJustify. So the keystrokes
:) >
:) >    ^W ^U
:) >
:) > will justify the whole message. I think most people find they don't 
:) > really want to do this very often and instead use ^J on individual 
:) > paragraphs. ^J moves to the bottom of the paragraph it justifies so a 
:) > series of ^J's will justify a series of paragraphs.
:) 
:) Yeah but Justify doesn't insert the leading >, does it? Since manually 
:) inserting the > will upset some number of the already justified lines, 
:) this really isn't a solution. 

Was that a rethorical question? When you reply to a message, Pine will add 
your quote string to every line in the message.

When you justify, Pico will fill the text up to the column you have 
specified, and add the quote string as necessary. Even if a line is very 
long, when you justify it, it will be folded into a paragraph, but that is 
very easy to check, one does not need to ask this to figure it out.

What Pico will do is to add different quote levels of the "same" quote 
string. I put it in quotes because "> " and ">" are the same for this 
algorithm. Pico does not notice different quote levels of different quote 
strings. For example the text below would not be justified correctly
by Pico if the quote string is "> ".

> MC> SH> This text  has three quotes, "> ", "MC> " and "SH> ", but
> MC> SH> Pico would only see the first one, and would mess the rest
> MC> SH> when justifying. I think vim would also mess this up.

I hope this clarifies the issue.

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/
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