Due to the influx of people who were familiar with how picospan on the Well
accepted text, there was a period during which Grex appeared confusing,
because Grex's text collector does not do word wrap. 

This prompted one of our unix wizards (No, not Marcus, Jan Wolter <janc>)
to implement a replacement collector with all the right stuff. It is 
still in beta test, and has been discussed in an item in agora.
It will probably be discussed more in coop before it is ultimately adopted
as the standard for new users. 

In the meantime, if you are interested and want to try it, type the
following at an OK or Respond or Pass prompt:
set edalways
define editor "/u/janc/gate"
This is all you need to do, and word wrapping will magically be available.

If you want to have this be your default, put these two lines in your
.cfonce file, and you won't have to repeat them when you log in each time.

10 responses total.

I have done this, and I approve of the result.  My text now wraps
automatically.  But I shall have to train myself not to type <return>
as that is my habit.

Thou shall have no other marcuses before me.

That's our breener -- still on the barricades.

Well I didn't elevate Jan to a higher pedestal. I was just pointing out
that it was a *different* guru who provided this relief from the tedium
of having to remember when to hit <cr> and the bigger tedium of 
reading endless lines from the unclued masses.

Obviously, I'm regressing.  I rather like "es".

Power to the Pico

Revolt against the oppressive users of default text editors!

Yeah, write your own.

Revolt, and you will be revolting.

Long live the glorious devolution!

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