Hello Marck,

Saturday, December 29, 2001, 02:41:12 PM, you wrote:

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MDP> Hi Sebastian,

MDP> On 29 December 2001 at 14:09:53 [GMT+0100] (which was 13:09 where I
MDP> live) Sebastian wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and made these
MDP> points:


S>> Is it normal, that the BAT cannot wrap correctly? Whenever I paste
S>> a text, it just keeps on going towards a few meters outside the
S>> right side of my monitor - why can it not wrap it?

MDP> Because it is not supposed to unless you use "Paste formatted"
MDP> (Shift-Ctrl-Ins). This is by design.

S>> I was told by one of the programmers, that I would have to use some
S>> keyboard combination, but that doesn't work out correctly all the
S>> time, since I sometimes have certain formatted texts, that lose all
S>> their formatting once I do that.

MDP> That's why it's not supposed to reformat when pasting normally.

S>> Any help on this? Is it THAT hard to create an editor that wraps
S>> correctly?

MDP> Clearly you are asking for the impossible here :-).

MDP> If reforming the text loses the formatting, that's not what you want.

MDP> If leaving the text as-is makes it the wrong format then it is not
MDP> pre-formatted as you suggest.

MDP> It sounds to me as though you have a mixture of formatted and
MDP> unformatted text in the clipboard and are expecting TB's editor to
MDP> guess which is which.

MDP> You have to bear in mind that TB's editor is plain text. It has no
MDP> concept of "soft line breaks". To make a clear delineation between two
MDP> paragraphs TB must see a clear blank line between them.

Alright, I understand and I guess I can agree to some extent. BUT: why
for example do I get wrapping problems if I type text, then go back to
a line and insert say 3 words - the whole line gets moved but NOT
wrapped - is that supposed to be like that, and if so, why?

Thank you,

Sebastian. :)


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