[Info-vax] EDT: SET ENTITY WORD

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.1111071103500.29390 at libra.gmcl.internal>,
Rob Brown <mylastname at gmcl.com> writes: 

> On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 at 11:54 -0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 
> > In EDTINI.EDT I have:
> >
> >   SET ENTITY WORD '  .,?!;:[]()<>*-+=/\{}$^_&'
> 
> Wow!  I always got by with space, comma, horizontal tab, linefeed, 
> vertical tab, and formfeed.
> 
> > However, fewer characters would be better when EDT determines where 
> > to make a line break when text is being wrapped.  Is there a SIMPLE 
> > solution to my problem.
> 
> Dunno.  Does SET WORD NODELIMITER help?

Yes, but only as part of a more complex solution.  Basically, what I
want is DELIMITER in most cases but NODELIMITER for wrapping purposes. 
I could redefine GOLD-KP8 and/or my CTRL-P (FILLPAR.) to be a macro
which first sets NODELIMITER, then does the wrapping, then sets it back.

I'll probably do this, but this won't affect the automatic wrapping when
I type.  Yes, I could hit RETURN near the end of a line (AND WE SHOULD
BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL THAT IN EDT THE RESULT IS THE SAME) when the next 
word would be too long, but that is not something I want to teach my 
fingers and brain to do.

(A related issue: I have two spaces after each sentence.  If I fill the
first paragraph after the quoted text above, the "I" on the third line
jumps to the end of the second with one space before it.  Adding a space
and re-formatting brings it back to the next line.  In other words,
re-formatting has the risk of changing two spaces to one.  Is there any 
way to avoid this?)