Re: A "bug" in Midnight Commander? (the editor)

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

Hello,

Can you give an example how MC behaves now and how it should behave ?

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Tim Douglas wrote:

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> > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:33:22 -0000
> > From: "Reynir Stefansson" <reynirhs bakkar is>
> > Subject: Re: A "bug" in Midnight Commander? (the editor)
> > To: <mc gnome org>
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> Tim's original question:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I keep telling myself that there's a little inadequacy in the built in
> > > editor. I haven't come accoss any reference to this feature in the faq
> > > or built-in help.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I'm not a programmer so there's no chance of me contributing
> > > anything.  I suppose I could write a macro to get around this, but that
> > > would be a "work-around" and not a fix.
> > >
> > > When you use Ctrl-p to re-format a paragraph then there appears a
> > > double-space in various places of that paragraph.
> > >
> > > I reckon this inadequacy is too trivial to justify a fix, but I thought I
> > > should ask anyway, espeically if one has already been made.
> >
> >
> > Does the text in question have trailing spaces? I dare say it's a rather
> > common affliction to text editors put in a double space when that happens.
> >
> >
> > Reynir Stef?nsson (reynirhs bakkar is)
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> Yes, that's right.
>
> Emacs handles spaces correctly while reformatting a paragraph.  Oh well, I'll
> live with it.  It's a small price to pay for all that mc does.