James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com
To the best of my knowledge there is one CUA console editor Diakonos but that doesn't do softwrap. What do you use in a word processor, forums, email client - mostly CUA so it makes sense to stay with it for productivity. [...]
Ah well, it's moot for email clients as there's a special MIME "flag" format=flowed to overcome this very problem. Plain text email line lengths are usually kept fairly short (to avoid various historical errors), but format=flowed tells the reading client it can rewrap it.
Word processors and web browsers tend to have their own built-in editors, but I do end up deleting hard linebreaks in them more often than I'd like, even in cases where the pasted text came from the word processor or web browser itself!
Sorry the sed didn't work for you. I wonder why not.
Hope that informs,