Re: Esc-q and new line / line feed chars

[Joerg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jack McDermot" <mcdermot_jack@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I've been using jed for a some years now, and never felt a need to post to 
> this list [although I should have, at least to congratulate John for his 
> excellent work!]. I just need to quickly ask you something:
>
> I use the Esc-q combination to wrap paragraphs after having edited them. 
> However, I've noticed that jed inserts some sort of line break at the visual 
> EOL, that is, at the place where the line is broken on the screen as a 
> result of pressing Esc-q a line feed or new line character gets written to 
> the file. Is there a way to avoid this? Since January I often find myself 
> exchanging text files with others who open them in programs where these 
> characters cause them trouble to correctly wrap the text to their screens.

Do you mean Windows people? Try toggle_crmode() (a big C should appear in
the status bar) at SLang command line. This makes \r\n is the line end.

Jörg.

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