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The Wrap Page has got a great influence to the "feeling"
of WSedit. If the file type supports word wrapping (see "file"
page), you can choose the personal behaviour of wrapping text:
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with time delay is my personal favourite setting. If enabled, you can select a
delay time which omits a continious reformatting while typing text. I prefer 0
quarter seconds.
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after every keypress is the behaviour of most word wrap editors. Because of the
need of reformatting a big paragraph after every keypress,
the amount of processor time becomes noticeable on slow computers. If you type
very fast and your computer is not fast, this setting is not recommended.
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only by hand (^B) is the classic old DOS Wordstar behaviour.
A lot of people get confused if the text is reformatted
automatically while writing. Ctrl-B reformats the paragraph from the cursor to
the end of the paragraph. In any case, the paragraph is reformatted if the cursor
exceeds the line.
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not at all deactivates reformatting. Soft Returns are
handled like Hard Returns. Even ^B has
no effect.
The Cursor left/right checkbox influences the behaviour of cursor movement.
If disabled, the behaviour is like in a programmers
editor: you can reach every point of the screen by using
the cursor. If enabled, the cursor follows the text. Where there is no text,
you have to fill the line with spaces to reach a position where no text is written
yet (or simply use the mouse). The behaviour does remember to the ^OX Wordstar
command, but it's not the same. Anyway, you can toggle this behaviour by typing
^OX.
The horizontal scrollbar can be shown or omitted. Dependent
on formatting on/off shows/omits the horizontal scrollbar,
dependent on the local text: between .BE and .BD dot commands
(enable/disable formatting), the scrollbar is shown, otherwise not. Permanently
off omits the horizontal scrollbar permanently, Permanently on always shows it.
But if the file type is Wordstar formatted,
it is shown anyway.