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?
I'm asking because I want to be sure I'm describing the option accurately.
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).
Re-flow of the selection or a paragraph is provided by edit->format->reflow lines/block usually bound to ctrl-j
Cheers Lex
I'm asking because I want to be sure I'm describing the option accurately.
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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
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.
Well its only a "shortcoming" when editing blocks of text, for code it is the desired behavior.
Cheers Lex
On 1 June 2011 14:06, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Well its only a "shortcoming" when editing blocks of text, for code it is the desired behavior.
Cheers Lex
Good point and one that I mention in the newsletter. I used "shortcoming" in inverted commas. :D
On 1 June 2011 17:00, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Good point and one that I mention in the newsletter. I used "shortcoming" in inverted commas. :D
So did I :-D
Cheers Lex
"Great minds think alike." :P