>vfp have updated the Maximum # of characters per command line to 8,192 (vfp capacities).any prg can support until this 8192 chars by line.
>if beautify is limited to 255 chars by line (max length of litteral string) and not updated in vfp9.
>in notepad++ long strings are supported with no limitation.
>if you have a big prg ,cannot make chunks to be smaller than 255 chars/line to make beautify possible without crash....it must be implemented in beautify itself otherwise this have no sens.
> at least beautify can make possible to overide text/endtext and dont beautify it.

See this Link for Beautify directive to ignore sections of code:

http://rickschummer.com/blog/2005/03/vfp-9-hidden-gem-beautify-directive.html