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#Whap 1.9c HELP!

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#1183From: Harry CallesisSep 19, 1990 5:56 PM
Vic (& Steve) – I'm glad (sort of) to see that I'm not the only one this happened to. Kinda makes me think I might be sane after all 8^). It's not happening tonight, either (same fonts, etc.) so it's definitely sporadic, whatever it is. I just tried an experiment – I typed 76 characters across. On the 76th one, the first character wentr away and I got a line feed. So maybe my font only allows 75 characters on a line even though there seemed to be enough screen space between the last character and the border for another character. Anyway, it's not very important and happens rarely, so I'm not going to worry about it. If you do find something, though, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Later … Harry
#1195From: Steve AhlstromSep 19, 1990 8:09 PM
Harry, That's exactly why it happens. If you have a 76 character line, use the default font, do NOT have any overscan, View! will wrap the word (ONLY the word, it will not do line wrap in the upper window) to the line below. I figured line length as font_width / window_width – 2. Since I normally use Courier 13 as my font and I'm heavily overscanned (710 rather than 640) I didn't run into the problem. But, in a "default" configuration, you get what you got — and no, I don't think it's acceptable. So, in the next rev of View! a default config'ed system will display the a 76 char line (in topaz 8) without splitting it. -sja