Re: [Nano-devel] softwrap without breaking words

[Mark Majeres]

On 8/26/14, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Mark,
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014, at 19:03, Mark Majeres wrote:
>> If the routine finds blank spaces or tabs at the head of the string
>> and this turns out to be the only blank location then it is not the
>> location I want.  It's noticeable with the Changelog open and then
>> reducing the window size to a minimal width.
>
> Hmm...  The minimal minimum width is four.  When I reach that
> (with softwrap enabled and the posted patch applied) then nano
> goes into an infinite loop and hangs.
>

the smallest I can make my window is about 20 chars, but if it works
down to 4 chars that seems pretty ok to me.  It may fail after the
column width of the window is less than the quote length.


> With debug enabled, there is this at the tail of the trail:
>
> update_line(): softwrap code, moving to 35317 index 0
> update_line(): converted(2) line =
> update_line(): softwrap code, moving to 35318 index 0
> update_line(): converted(2) line =
> update_line(): softwrap code, moving to 35319 index 0
> update_line(): converted(2) line =
> update_line(): softwrap code, moving to 35320 index 0
> update_line(): converted(2) line =
> update_line(): softwrap code, moving to 35321 index 0
> update_line(): converted(2) line =
>
>> no, the flag is set and edit_refresh() will be called after exiting
>> the function when it matters
>
> Does that mean that the call of edit_refresh() just before
> exiting this function is superfluous?
>
no, the function do_output is called for several other code paths

--Mark Majeres