You could try replacing Pico with Nano which is supposedly better.  Uh
oh, this isn't one of those holy war things is it?

Brady

> Hmm, the copy on Slackware 7.1 wraps properly.  Looking at pico's man 
> page, it looks like there's a command line option to disable line 
> wrapping.  If you're not running it directly, I'd check the 
> configuration of whatever's launching it to see if it's adding that 
> option (-w).  If you're doing it from the command line, try typing 
> 'alias' and seeing if there's an alias defined for pico.
> 
> Pico is also part of the Pine package (on Slackware, at least); you 
> might try looking through .pinerc and such and see if modifying the 
> composer options in there have an effect.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Vieths
> Email:  Foeclan at Winternet.com
> Web:    http://www.geekbear.net
> 
> 
> 
> Brian wrote:
> > I think I found a bug in RH6.2's version of Pico.  Has to do with line
> > wrapping.
> > 
> > I've since discovered
> > Bob? Likes? orange? flower? what? three? where? george?
> > 
> > Dangit... still there.  That's a long line, it should just wrap george
> > onto another line.  Is it supposed to do this?  I grabbed the latest pine
> > build (4.33) and I was hoping it would fix it.  Looks like it didn't :-(
> > 
> > -Brian