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At 11:48 AM 3/17/2005, you wrote:
>- If I try to change the configuration character to something more useful than 173, a completely different character (than in Misc:ASCII table, alt-m-a) is displayed.
When {CONFIG, Horizontal scroll margin} is set, lines longer than this margin will be wrapped to multiple screen lines, and the wrapped lines will be preceded with a "continuation" characters, typically a highlighted "-".
The (rarely changed) line continuation character can be changed only with a Config() command, e.g. by editing this line tin the vedit.cfg file:
Config( S_CONT_C, "Screen continuation character", 173 )
As has been observed, the default "173" is actually 0x80 + '-'. The 8th bit is not part of the character, but is actually a flag indicating whether this character should be highlighted. The highlight attribute is set by:
Config( C_STAT, "Color for status line", 112 )
This is a "DOS version" color in that it does not affect the color of the Windows version status line. However, it also sets the color the continuation character in both the DOS and Windows versions.
If you are editing with black on white characters, you will want to change this color to something other than 112. Use {Config, Editing colors} to see a color chart with decimal values.
Therefore, although you are limited to 7-bit characters, by combining this with an appropriate color, you can have a continuation character that stands out and is never confused with the actual file characters.
I am sorry this was never well documented and is so complex. It is a vestige from the early 1980's; I should probably fix/simply this.
Ted.
Ted.
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