[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[AEF]

On Nov 10, 2:56 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <iben6n$qr... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
> >On 2010-11-10 18:25, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >> In article<910f992e-ed5a-4e27-9491-882c5b085... at v20g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, MetaEd<met... at gmail.com>  writes:
> >>> On Nov 10, 9:45 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >>>> Can you make vim wrap at the indented column? =A0I hate trying to
> >>>> follow code that is indented but then the long lines wrap at the
> >>>> left margin.
>
> >>> Vim normally wraps to the indented column.
>
> >> Hmm.  I have PHP code that is a bitch to read because it's like
> >> emails typed on WEENDOZE...
>
> >OK, you have absolutely no idea what you are
> >talking about, right ? What exactly characterize
> >"emails typed on WEENDOZE" that makes them stand out ?
>
> The lack of carriage returns because they type and hope that their email
> program will automagically wrap their text.  Try reading WEEDOZE email in
> a text email agent and you'll see.  You're here on comp.os.vms, so it's
> probably you have access to VMS mail.  Have a look-see.  And, it's not a
> WEENDOZE only phenom but that's the crux of most of the emails that I have
> to suffer.
> --
> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>
> All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
> All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.

I only have this problem when I copy files, or copy and paste text, to
a VAX. I often give up as it's faster to copy and paste to Wordpad in
text mode than to do the same to an EVE editor buffer (at least when
using SmarTerm). I sometimes do this with terminal sessions, though
there were other scenarios in the past, which I can't remember right
now. Oh, I think it was copying content from webpages.

I like wrap when I can use it to correct someone's lousy judgment
about when to hit the Return key, such as making lines too long to
read easily.

And I wish the default for VT was wrap so that I don't miss trailing
parts long messages from a boot session.

I recently had a problem where I copied something (I forget what,
sorry) to a Mac Mail new-message window. I was astounded to see it
wrap by splitting words across lines! I don't recall the exact method
needed to achieve this stunning, yet annoying effect. Sorry.

Several months ago I had a wrap problem with a chat session with
Comcast.  The tech's lines didn't wrap! I couldn't read anything past
the right border of the chat window without horizontal scrolling! I
asked him to press the Return key once in a while but he didn't, even
after repeated requests and explanations. Where was QA, and what were
they on?

I am posting this chat under separate cover as it's a little long
(well, it has lots of blank separator-lines). I replaced the person's
name with "<tech person>" and edited out the irrelevant parts. I swear
I did not make this up! See my next post for the dialog. If you liked
the Word Perfect 'Tell them "You're too stupid to use a computer"'
hoax, you like this one, except mine is bona fide.

I'd love to have a "Universal Translator" (a la Star Trek TOS) that
would fix up any text. Does anyone have one? I made an attempt at a
quick-and-dirty solution using output from the DUMP command, but it
splits words across lines.

AEF