Re: Wrapping inside the quote arrows

James Huang (james@sn.no)
Sat, 22 Jun 1996 18:50:28 +0100

In article <Pine.SV4.3.91.960621175524.2795A-100000@mirage>, Richard
Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> wrote:

> > I have problems with the editor i use - Qedit. And Yarn itself
> > behaves rather wierdly under the NT DOS-emulation box.
>
> QEdit's a very nice DOS editor!

Yes. I have used that in about 10 years now and the key-strokes are sort
of ingrained. <g>
Sometines I wish I could get vi to have the same key-strokes. <g>

> > The size of the window and the screen buffer size confuses Yarn95
> > such that it gives me blobs of color pixels everytime I scroll.
>
> Hmmm. I sometimes run in 80x50 or 80x60 mode in Warp VIO windows, but
> I dynamially change it in particular aliases (I use 4OS2) instead of
> doing that by default. That lets me use things like Yarn without
> breaking them.

NTs DOS-window is something of a bastard. Not really DOS nor Windows.

> Yarn seems to work fine here in 80x50. Why use a scrollback with a
> fullscreen application, anyway?

Well, I run it in a window since I feel it is a waste of NTs
capabilities. And it is "nice" to have the ability to hop about from
window to window.

> > Just another of my (numerous) wishes for Yarn. <g>
>
> I have a lot of wishes, too, but I've been so happy with Yarn (execpt
> for the folder slowness) that I haven't given them much thought. The
> thread tree just added was about the only thing I missed from other
> readers...

Have not had trhe chance to fetch 0.91 yet. Will be doing that this
evening after I have gotten Windows NT 4B2 installed properly.

James