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If a line of text is too long to fit within the screen width it is wrapped, with Hemlock displaying consecutive pieces of the text line on as many screen lines as needed to hold the text. Hemlock indicates a wrapped line by placing a line-wrap character in the last column of each screen line. Currently, the line-wrap character is an exclamation point (!). It is possible for a line to wrap off the bottom of the screen or on to the top.
Hemlock wraps screen lines when the line is completely full regardless of the line-wrap character. Most editors insert the line-wrap character and wrap a single character when a screen line would be full if the editor had avoided wrapping the line. In this situation, Hemlock would leave the screen line full. This means there are always at least two characters on the next screen line if Hemlock wraps a line of display. When the cursor is at the end of a line which is the full width of the screen, it is displayed in the last column, since it cannot be displayed off the edge.
Hemlock displays most characters as themselves, but it treats some specially:
Since a character may be displayed using more than one printing character, there are some positions on the screen which are in the middle of a character. When the cursor is on a character with a multiple-character representation, Hemlock always displays the cursor on the first character.
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