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Date:	Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:25:37 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@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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> not wrap lines. When you startup the E editor, select options --> word
> wrap --> ON|OFF.

I do not see that anywhere on my EPS. It's on the OS/2 System Editor,
but as far as I can tell, not on EPS.

We'll get into this later. Right now I got to go!
HCM
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Steve Schiffman wrote:
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> Harry Chris Motin wrote:
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> > 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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