Re: Fwd: Re: wrap problem [albrecht.dress@arcormail.de]

[Emmanuel <e allaud wanadoo fr>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:33:04 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> 
> Am 27.07.2001 15:48:26 schrieb(en) M . Thielker:
> > IMHO, paragraphs should be delimited by a single \n. This is the notion
> > supported by most word processors today. Hitting <enter> ends a paragraph.
> > The end of a paragraph must not always be a blank line. I always use text
> > entry fields as if that were the case, and I don't like them to behave
> > differently. If I type a single \n, I don't want that to be removed by
> > "reflow paragraph". If there's a \n, it's there because I meant there 
should
> > be one, it's not an option, I want it there. Programs shouldn't try to
> > second-guess humans, they should do as they're told.
> 
> Now think of the following:
> 
> (1) Type a really long mail, separating paragraphs by a single <enter> == 
\n.
> 
> (2) Do a "reflow body". Now at the end of each line you will find additional
> \n's. This means that you virtually lost the information where a paragraph 
and
> where a line ends.
> 
> (3) See that you missed to type some stuff in one paragraph, so type this 
text
> in...
> 
> ... and now you want balsa to reflow exactly this paragraph... I now more or
> less understand what happens since the last patch. Because there are \n's in
> the text, the relow code interprets them as "hard" paragraph breaks and does
> not process them.
> 
> IMHO, the delimiter for a paragraph is essentially a blank line: a newline,
> maybe followed by whitespace chars, plus an other newline ("\n\s*\n" in PCRE
> syntax). At least I use this layout. A solution might be to add an option
> (check button in the outgoing mail options) "paragraphs are separated by a
> blank line" which switches back to the old behaviour?
>

Perhaps can we just say that a \n plus a tab or a \n is the delimiter of 
paragraphs ? That way we can handle all types of paragraphs we're 
discussing.
But I thought that such issues should be handled by the edit widget 
itself (that's another story I think :).
Bye
Manu