In article <199904151551.KAA01243@guild.plethora.net> seebs@plethora.net writes:
>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.  ;)

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christos