> >From: Gregory Resch <carey@apollo.tomco.net>
<snip>
> >. . .Be sure to keep wordwrap
> >off, and go back through the file before saving to make sure your editor
> >didn't sneak some errors back in. (Pico fights long lines but can be
> >outsmarted, chiefly but not only by invoking it with wrap off.)
>
<snip>
> Use another editor that can handle longer lines,
> like vi. In the case of ridiculously long lines, use emacs.
Learning vi or emacs just to edit one file seems... ummm...
inefficient. (Kinda like learning to fly just to go home for
Thanksgiving.)
It isn't necessary, anyway, since "longer" lines *can* be forced into
shape in pine (just don't cursor back through it), and "ridiculously long"
lines means one's .newsrc is a holy mess (just collapse the first
half of such a line into a single range; you obviously don't have time to
read all those articles and they're probably all expired by now anyway).
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