[Oberon] Line wrapping. Was "Oberon keyboard tweaks"

[peter at easthope.ca]

August Karlstrom fusionfile at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 19:38:35 CET 2023
> Talking about text editing, is there a command in Oberon for wrapping 
> paragraphs of text? I can't imagine having to insert manual line 
> breaks in the right places when editing a paragraph of text, and 
> having to reach for the mouse in between.

From:	Chris Burrows <cfbsoftware at gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 4 Nov 2023 08:14:22 +1030
> Do you mean 'word processing' rather than 'text editing'? Oberon has
> different tools designed to suit each activity.

Chris, suppose you open Edit or ET and put a "word" such as this in an empty file.
 123456789

Copy the characters more than a dozen times so you have something 
similar to this.
 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789
=8~/

Here in A2 > Oberon, ET the line runs off the viewer on the right.  I 
can break the line and see this.
 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789
 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789
Then all the characters are visible.  =8~)

In an editor which auto-wraps, a non-issue.

Mail.CutLines was provided to break long lines in email messages into 
visible lengths; correct?  Reading email isn't it?  Nobody calls it 
word processing.  

I found CutLines useful outside email but Wrap may not be needed.  
Is wrapping available other than CutLines and Wrap?

Thx,                                 ... P.L.


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