[1195] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Aug 24 16:57:09 1990
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 16:56:40 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: timhsu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: timhsu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 17 Aug 90 06:10:07 -0400 <9008171010.AA06607@W20-575-92.MIT.EDU>
From: timhsu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 06:10:07 -0400
The Post editor has a standard line width that makes the
following happen to my posts:
[example of text with wrapped lines]
By default, xrn wraps text that is longer than a certain length; the
man page describes this quite clearly. I don't like the behavior
either, and I use the following X resources to get around it:
xrn*breakLength: 0
xrn*Composition.pane.text.wrap: never
xrn*Composition.pane.text.autoFill: true
xrn*Composition.geometry: 660+0+0
The first line disables automatic text wrapping completely. The
second line disables the Text widget wraping, and the third line
enables autofill, which causes the Text widget to automatically insert
newlines when you type past the end of a line in the widget. The
fourth line makes the Composition widget have room for exactly 80
characters. Note, also, that you can use M-q inside the Text widget
to get it to reformat paragraphs.
Also, I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I think you should
have a button on Post that is something like "include article with
funny > things on the left." You know what I mean.
I'm not sure what you're asking for here, because the "Include
Article" button already does this, with a default prefix of "|> ". If
you want a different prefix, the man page for xrn describes how to
change it using X resources or command line options.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Watchmaker and User Consultant
Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) member
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
