In message <19990415054436.A26167@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:
>>Well, "pico" will wrap lines (so can "vi"), but to make it rejustify you
>>have to hit Control-J. That's still not what Peter wants, which is to
>>justify automatically. The only editor I've ever seen that does that, runs
>>on a Macintosh, but you probably don't want to hear about that... :)

>that's funny...i was sure it did that automatically.  that was the
>only explanation i could come up with for why things like sendmail.cf
>and named.boot got royally screwed up when edited by admin that was
>not me.

No - that's just wordwrap.  By rejustify, I mean... lemme give an example.

To save typing, assume a 40-column screen indented by 8 spaces.
	We start with a sample paragraph of
	text.  This paragraph is justified to 
	fit within the 40-column limit.  Now,
	we change some text on the first line,
	ending up with

	The following paragraph of
	text.  This paragraph is justified to 
	fit within the 40-column limit.  Now,
	we remove some text from the first
	line, ending up with

I want an editor that will move "text." up to the first line as soon
as there's space for it, without you hitting a command to make it justify.

Not very often, but my mom's writing a column about using free OS's, from
the perspective of a non-techie, so it'd be great if she could have the
story of how it got easier to do.  ;)

-s