Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95?
by Crontab on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:07PM
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I really don't want a word processor, per se, so much as I want really robust (realtime) text wrapping/unwrapping as I edit paragraphs. I've tried to get Vim and Emacs to do reflows but both were very flakey compared to something like WordPerfect for DOS.
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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95?
by genuinebyte on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:56AM
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I think I know what you mean. I try to wrap at 80 col. and I often need to go back and edit a paragraph, which breaks all my wrapping.
Have you tried soft line wrapping in GNU nano (M-S)? As long as you're running nano in an 80 column wide window, that should work fine.
BBEdit might be just right for you.
My apologies, I was specifically referring to text-based/console-based applications. All the GUI text editors seem to wrap and unwrap just fine.
Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95?
by jaclaz on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:25AM
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Not exactly a word processor but it seems to me like you could try (if you can find it) the TSE or QEdit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SemWare_Editor
what Qedit (often renamed simply to Q.exe) was capable of doing in the (good) old times was incredible.