netbsd-help: Re: NetBSD-friendly ISP's?

Subject: Re: NetBSD-friendly ISP's?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/15/1999 10:51:17

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. ;)
-s