On 1 June 2011 09:49, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 June 2011 07:45, Russell Dickenson russelldickenson@gmail.com wrote:
I have written a small piece for newsletter volume 3 about Geany's Line Breaking and Line Wrapping options and have a question. From my testing of Line Breaking it seems that with this option enabled, line breaking only occurs if you're adding text to the end of the line, not in the middle. Is this how the option was designed to behave?
Yes, its line breaking, not re-flow. Only breaks when the cursor is past the limit (doesn't have to be end of line, just edit with the cursor past the limit).
Thanks, Lex. That confirms that what I've described is fairly accurate. I need to clarify my description to state that line breaking occurs when the cursor goes past the line breaking column.
Re-flow of the selection or a paragraph is provided by edit->format->reflow lines/block usually bound to ctrl-j
I use reflow all the time but I realised only thanks to your email that I need to point it out to readers so that they can work around the "shortcoming" of the line breaking option.
Cheers Lex
I'm asking because I want to be sure I'm describing the option accurately.
-- Russell Dickenson