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Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: nano's justifications are poorer than those of Pic
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Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita |
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Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: nano's justifications are poorer than those of Pico -- okay to improve? |
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Sun, 20 May 2018 16:36:11 -0300 |
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 5:56 AM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Nano claims to copy Pico's behavior, but... it turns out that for
> justifications this is far from true. 1) nano doesn't treat indented
> paragraphs by default the same as Pico. 2) nano misjudges paragraphs
> when the starting line has less instead of more indentation than the
> rest. 3) nano could do better than Pico in that case.
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I'm not a big user of text justification and I am biased to external
commands, so take my opinion with care. Can't we just "delegate" this
task to par or gnu fmt?