[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#563913: mcedit: Alt-P paragraph wrapping could helpfully use line start character

[Karsten Hilbert]

Package: mc
Version: 2:4.7.0-pre1-3
Severity: wishlist

The MC editor offers the very helpful feature of wrapping
text to a pre-defined paragraph length upon pressing Alt-P
on the first line of a paragraph. I am using that a lot when
answering emails in order to wrap "endless" lines from
broken mailers (where all the text of a paragraph is on one
line).

I typically use levels of ">" before quoted lines as is
customary. When Alt-P wrapping long lines only the first
line will have the > in front of it, of course. It would be
great if mc could recognize one or a few characters as line
quoting characters and optionally offer to prepend those to
wrapped lines if existent on the first line.

Those are examples of line starts I am thinking of to be
prepended depdending on the first wrapped line:

>

>>

>  >>

>> >

>> > >

As one can see, there can be spaces intermingled within the
quoting chars.

Thanks,
Karsten

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                       1.20.4-3.2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                     2.2.2-2    The S-Lang programming library - r

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  imagemagick                  7:6.5.8.3-1 image manipulation programs

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-3    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dbview                        1.0.4-1    View dBase III files
ii  file                          5.03-5     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  mime-support                  3.48-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  odt2txt                       0.4-1      simple converter from OpenDocument
ii  perl                          5.10.1-8   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                         6.0-1      De-archiver for .zip files
ii  w3m                           0.5.2-2.1  WWW browsable pager with excellent
pn  xpdf                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  zip                           3.0-1      Archiver for .zip files

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