plain text file wrapping woes...

Marc Martin (mmartin@cnw.com)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:48:08 -0700

Here's a question that's been bugging me for a bit...

I'm using Oberon/F v1.2 under Windows 95. I drag and drop a lot of plain
text files into the Oberon/F application window. Oberon/F opens them up
alright, but it wraps the text whenever the line width exceeds around 7"
(taken from my current printer setup). However, I *don't want* my plain
text files to be wrapped -- I'd rather have them unwrapped, and scroll to
the right if I need to see more. Is there a way I can make this the
default behavior, either by changing a setting somewhere or writing a bit
of code to tell the framework what I want?

Right now, I've discovered 2 solutions, neither of which are very
satisfying -- one is to change my printer setup to landscape mode, which
then makes my default width larger, but it also makes ALL of my
applications default to landscape printing... :-( The other is to manually
go into the "Document Size" dialog box and change the width specification,
but the problem with this is that I have to do it *every single time* I
open a plain text file... :-(

Thanks in advance for any solutions/advice,

Marc Martin
marc.martin@boeing.com