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Re: BBEdit question

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From: Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)5...
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:05
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In article <15429@umd5.umd.edu>, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams) writes...
>Oh BBEdit experts:  is there some way to get BBEdit to wrap text
>automatically, that is, as I type it in?  Right now I get everything on
>one looong line, which makes it quite dffclt to read.  Or am I just
>supposed to type carriage returns, like on a typewriter?  I'm afraid
>I've gotten too used to  Microsoft WORD, and old habits die hard.

The latest version of BBEdit, 2.1.3, has a wrap feature.  You set it in 
Preferences, from the File menu. You can set for the Philip bar, the window 
width, or a fixed number of characters.  (Question:  what's a Philip bar?)


Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser%nssdca.span@star.stanford.edu
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
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