Word wrapping on the fly? - Pegasus

On Sep 28, 12:00 pm, lmfback <peter.backg...@absolutelynos-p-a-
m.ericsson.com> wrote:
> Lately I'm noticing more and more of a rather annoying word wrapping
> feature. It's like the computers I use are too fast (or too slow or too
> many CPU's or... .
>
> A bit hard to explain but basically what happens is that I write a
> paragraph and later add something in the middle of that paragraph.
> Quite often, especially when typing at top speed, when a word wrap
> occurs on the fly the text ends up on the wrong line (or the word wrap
> messes up a few characters).
>
> Easiest to explain with an example I guess. The X is where I'm typing
> when thing go wrong (adding the text "like this"):
>
> What I'm saying is, if I write something X
> . This is just the next sentence and there's
> nothing particular about it.
>
> => I GET THIS (cursor at X)
>
> What I'm saying is, if I write something . T
> like thisXhis is just the next sentence and there's
> nothing particular about it.
>
> => WANTED THIS (cursor at right place)
>
> What I'm saying is, if I write something like
> thisX. This is just the next sentence and there's
> nothing particular about it.
>
> (ignore language, too many paragraphs to fix
>
> So the word wrap does the actual word wrap a bit late. And not
> necessarily at the correct spot either (i.e. before/after the next
> word). As I programmer I can think of some reasons for this happening.
> None good though. But it's extremely annoying as fixing requires one to
> actually stop and think to be able to reassemble the "puzzle". And that
> breaks the thought flow as well.
>
> This happens on several different computers and in some instances I'm
> only using one CPU. Like when this happens at work I'm in a virtual
> machine Vmware Windows. But at home it happens under the main operating
> system so it should not be Vmware messing things up.
>
> I write mostly in Pmail so this is where I notice it. I think it
> happens in notepad as well but that I've always attributed to the
> ancient notepad saving file bug. Not sure about other software.
>
> Anyone else having this or should I just start typing slower?
>
> Eskimo

I get exactly this in PMail quite frequently. You describe it well.
I've never been able to pin down just what triggers it, but I think -
as you say - it's always(?) when you've gone back to correct or insert
something. Has been happening since way before PMail 4.50b, but I
can't say if it came in with a particular version. And I don't think
it can be to do with superfast machines, because both of my desktops
(Dell Pentium 4 PCs, Win XP Pro SP3) are around 4 years old and
weren't exactly state of the art when new.

best
David