In article <5PHyxA1M1SAS089yn@sn.no>, james@sn.no (James Huang) wrote:
> In article <Pine.SV4.3.91.960618160703.28839C-100000@mirage>, Richard
> Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> wrote:
> > > > - The 'O' command at the newsgroup selection level now marks all
> > > > articles in the newsgroup as read when it saves the articles
> > > > to a folder.
> > >
> > > This could be dangerous as I have experienced that having too many
> > > messages saved into a folder can cause Yarn to die with a "Memory"
> > > (sorry as i cannot remember the actual text) message.
> >
> > You referring to the DOS version?
Yes.
> > I have something like 2400 messages in my POSTED folder at this
> > point (which gets a bit awkward 'cuz it takes a few minutes to
> > extract itself when I leave), but I've not seen a problem with that
> > number. Obviously a newsgroup could have several times that,
> > though... :-(
I have had Yarn (0.89) crash on me when I have been away for a few days
and then open a newsgroup in the comp.os.ms-windows.nt heirarchy.
> > > Could I _beg_ for the inclusion of a switch which sets the right
> > > margin for quoted text and Yarn wraps at that point?
> >
> > How would you handled embedded quote characters? I'd love to see
> > this, particularly if it was intelligent enough to wrap only the
> > first-level text and not text previously quoted. Example:
> >
> > > > This is test that the person I'm replying to had quoted, and the
> > > > Yarn wrapping algorithm doesn't touch it.
This is the point. I am hoping for a possibility that Yarn can wrap
everything that is dumped to the editor. At present I have to re-wrap
manually and that is a pain.
> > > This text, on the other hand, is being wrapped
> > > by Yarn, and appears in a very narrow paragraph
> > > because the user specified a small number for a
> > > "right column" value. :-)
This, I believe is more your editor's doing. There is nothing in Yarn's
CONFIG file where one can set a "right-margin".
> > The DOS comm program I use from time to time (Telemate) supports
> > this type of intelligent wrapping in its paste-with-quote-prefix
> > function.
Maybe Chin could re-engineer that to get the code? <g>
James