Re: [Patch] Add ability to specify the column when to wrap long lines
On Thu, 05 May 2005, 20:04:11 +0200, David Champion wrote:
> * On 2005.05.05, in <20050505164132.GB7242@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> * "Manfred Hollstein" <mh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The patch for this incl. the documentation is attached. I'd appreciate
> > if it can be approved and applied by someone.
>
> This seems like a reasonable thing for mutt to be capable of, but I'd
> rather see wrapmargin and wrapcolumn combined -- e.g., if $wrapcolumn
> is positive, wrap at that column, if negative, wrap at that offset from
> the width of the terminal. This is fairly typical behavior for screen
> layout engines, so it should be generally understood.
>
> Could wrapcolumn be adapted to do that, and wrapmargin be phased out in
> a later release? Internally wrapmargin could translate to wrapcolumn.
Sure, that's even better. I didn't want to touch wrapmargin, because I
didn't know how widely it is actually used. I'll work on a patch and post
it to the list.
Cheers.
l8er
manfred