Re: Word wrap bug.

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

David Pickens is the author of the wordwrap code, but I'll see if I can 
take
a look into this. I agree with the minus 6 quirk, I'll see if there's a 
more
obvious way to do it. I must admit though that I can't see how you'd 
notice...

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:47:01 Jason A . Smith wrote:
> 
> 	I think I found a minor bug in the word wrapping code in balsa.  If 
> a line contains one really long word, like a long URL for example, then 
> it is cut at the correct place, but a character is missing at the place 
> that the line is cut.  I assume that this is done to cut out the space 
> that is usually between words.  Sorry I don't have the time to go through 
> the code and fix it myself to send you a patch.
> 
> 	I also have a question about the line wrapping preference dialog and 
> what the code actually does.  I see in the code, that if the line begins 
> with a ">" it is broken at what the user specifies, otherwise it is cut 6 
> spaces before.  I can understand the reason why this is done, but still 
> as a user I would find it odd that when I specify word wrapping at 78 
> characters, the program really wraps it at 72 characters.  Shouldn't it 
> wrap it at the place that the user requests?  Maybe change the default to 
> 72 instead of having the program wrap it earlier than what the user 
> specifies.  Also, if you are going to check for a line beginning with ">" 
> in the code, it should probably be changed to whatever the user specified 
> the reply prefix to instead of hard coding a ">", just in case they 
> changed it.
> 
> -Jason
> 
> P.S.  Nice job!
> 
> 
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