[1304] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.12.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Sep 25 12:21:21 1990
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 12:20:53 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: cedar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: cedar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Tue, 25 Sep 90 02:00:31 -0400 <9009250600.AA28229@M1-142-18.MIT.EDU>
From: cedar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 02:00:31 -0400
Somenone in Finland sent me mail about using carriage returns every now and then. I thought xrn put them in for me, or so it seems in the composition window. Is this a bug or did I just have too wide a window?
It used to do this, but the author of the program decided to change
the default behavior in the new version. There are several ways you
can get around this problem; which one to use is up to you, and they
all have slightly different behavior:
1. Leave your set-up as it is now, but when you're typing, always
separate paragraphs by blank lines, and when you're done typing a
paragraph (or editing it), you type M-q to tell the Text widget to
reformat the paragraph with carriage returns.
If you want your lines to automatically end up 80 characters long
(by default, they'll end up a few characters longer than 80
characters), you also need to change the default width of the
composition widget, put this in your .Xresources file:
xrn*Composition.geometry: 661+0+0
2. Get back the old behavior of xrn, which is that it will
automatically wrap any lines longer than 80 characters directly
before it sends the message. To do this, put the following into
your .Xresources file:
xrn*breakLength: 80
You can use M-q in this mode too, if you want to wrap the yourself.
However, if you use M-q and the Composition text widget is wider
than 80 characters, then when xrn gets the message it will rewrap
the lines that are longer than 80 characters, and it'll look real
bad, so you'll probably want to change the size of the widget as I
indicated in (1) above.
3. Tell the composition text widget to insert carriage returns
automatically as you type, rather than having xrn do it before
sending the message (this is what I use). Add these lines to your
.Xresources file:
xrn*Composition.pane.text.wrap: never
xrn*Composition.pane.text.autoFill: true
You'll probably also want to add the geometry line in (1) to set
the widget of the Composition widget. Once again, you can use M-q
in this mode too.
I hope this answers your question.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Watchmaker and User Consultant
Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) member
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
