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Date:	Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:22:30 PST7
From:	Steve Schiffman <schiffman@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS/2 Editor (was Re: config.sys)

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Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>
> NO! NO! Use the OS/2 Enhanced editor, not the OS/2 System Editor. You
> want to see each and every individual line in the editor. You DO NOT
> want to see long lines word wrapped into 2 or more lines. With the OS/2
> Enhanced editor it will display every line as exactly 1 line, no matter
> how long it is. In the System Editor you can not do that. You get word
> wrapped lines.
>
> The idea here is that, when you manually edit the CONFIG.SYS, you want
> to maintain the integrity of each and every line. You do not want to,
> say inadvertently, combine 2 lines together, because you used the
> "Delete key" when you should not have. With the Enhanced Editor and each
> line displayed individually as one line, you can see any mistakes, when
> you make them. If indeed you use the System Editor and lines are word
> wrapped, you may not notice a mistake. That is especially true, because
> with word wrap, you may not get it right with respect to where 1 line
> ends and the next one begins. You may inadvertently cut off a line in
> the middle, say, because of the word wrap confusion.

Harry Motin,

Your emphatic insistence that the OS/2 E editor only wraps lines is
INCORRECT. You have the option in the OS/2 E editor to either wrap or
not wrap lines. When you startup the E editor, select options --> word
wrap --> ON|OFF. You have a choice and you can change this option during
editing of a file and see the results of wrapping or not wrapping lines.

Your rational to use the Enhanced Editor (known as EPM) is invalid for
the reasons your are stating. There may be other reasons to use EPM, but
line wrapping is not one of them. The OS/2 help about the Enhanced
Editor carries this caution: When editing your CONFIG.SYS or
AUTOEXEC.BAT, beware that the Enhanced Editor may cause some
concatenation of lines. I believe that EPM can only handle line lengths
of 255 characters, whereas the E editor can handle a 32K line length,
but I was not able to confirm that via the help. Steven Levine will
surly speak up with the answer to this (and say that Google is your
friend :))

To Butch, I say, use either editor. Just know which word wrap setting
you have chosen in the E editor. It makes it very handy to see an entire
line on the screen, but when you want to see only one line with a window
scroll bar, it is really easy to change the option to no wrap.

Steve Schiffman

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