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echo: synchronet
to: Nightfox
from: Digital Man
date: 2022-12-13 16:22:00
subject: Slyedit

  Re: Slyedit
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Dec 13 2022 09:59 am

 >   Re: Slyedit
 >   By: Digital Man to ErikaX86 on Mon Dec 12 2022 06:29 pm
 >
 >  >> I participate in an active local message area, and this has bugged me
 >  >> ever since my favorite BBS upgraded to Synchronet 3.19 at the
 >  >> beginning of the year.
 >
 >  DM> Is this particular to a specific message editor?
 >
 > There actually seems to be room for improvement in SlyEdit's handling of
 > quote lines. When the quote.txt file is written, some of the lines can be
 > longer than the user's terminal width (at least that seems to be the case
 > when using my message reader), and when quoting those lines, some of them
 > are cut off due to their length.  I looked into the quote line reading in
 > SlyEdit a bit, and I think I can use word_wrap() to wrap the quote lines to
 > ensure they fit into the user's terminal so they're all available for
 > quoting.

That feature is already built-into SBBS, if you need it.
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