Re: Maximum length input line

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:

> I read that before I made my posting; it looked to me that :block was 
> specifying a fixed-length read independent of line terminators, i.e., same 
> behavior as $/ = \1024.

Stand-alone, I guess it would be.  But I would think that combining it
with, say, :text=unix, should give you the behavior you'd want. 
(Assuming, of course, that this is the way it's going to work.)

> 
> >(And I'll add, I don't think the rest of the line should be thrown
> >away.)
> 
> No harm in making the choice another mode switch, no?

As in reading the first n columns?

:col=1024

Read the first 1024 columns of each line, and if the line happens to
be shorter than 1024, so be it?

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> Peter Scott
> Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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