slrn/nano wrapping problems still

I want line wrap at 74 for my reads and posts
I don't want word wrap unless it is from something
that is copy/pasted, which seems to be no problem

I have softwrap set in my ~/.nanorc
set softwrap
and it looks fine in nano editing, everything looks
fine in editing

I have nano set as my default editor in my ~/.slrnrc
set editor_command "nano -r 74"
according to the nano docs, this is supposed to
hard wrap at 74 columns

again, when I edit, everything is okay

when I send I get an error
from slrn that a line is not wrapped under 80
and I have to force send

when I then read the post in slrn it is not wrapped

if I copy/paste something word wrapped already, it makes
it through the whole line process fine

I don't want word wrap except for what I copy/paste

I have been reading docs and googling for 2 days, i tried vim,
gedit,emacs, no difference

any help appreciated


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