Marginfixed
Set Visual Marginfixed ON | OFF
(Default=none)
Qedit normally adjusts the terminal right margin and display width based on the file’s record length. This caused some terminal emulators like hpterm to behave erratically.
When Marginfixed is enabled, Qedit does not change the terminal settings. It assumes the right margin is the physical display width. This should work properly as long as the user let’s Qedit poll the terminal for the information. If the user decides to override this function by setting the RCRTWIDTH variable or change the width with Set Term Columns, Qedit trusts that the user has set the terminal properly.
Users should be aware of two things when Set Marginfixed is ON. If a file is narrower than the configured width, nothing prevents the user from entering text beyond the file’s right edge. This extra text will simply be ignored.
If the file is wider than the configured width, Qedit tries to display as much text as it thinks it can. This causes the text to overflow. However, instead of truncating the extra characters, the emulator writes them out on the last displayable column. For example, if a file has 100 characters but the configured width is 80, the first 79 characters are displayed correctly. Characters 80 through 100 are written to column 80. The net result is characters 80 to 99 are lost and character 100 ends up in column 80 on the screen.