[Geany] Line Wrap Button -- addition

[chuck]

Added item.  This operation is a one-time thing.  It is not  a mode of 
operation as is line wrapping.  Once done, it affects only the text that 
was there when it was done.  New text just goes into the buffer as 
always.  It can extend beyond the line-break marker or not.  A 
subsequent 'format' action will then affect all text existing at that 
time.  The line-break column may bwe changed before the format and the 
new width will be active for that one operation.

Hope this is clear.

chuck

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I believe what is being asked for is a way to "format" the text and
force line endings (\n. \r, etc. depending on document ) at the current
line-breaking column (eg 72). Of course the breaks would occur at word
boundaries.

This is not overly useful for code but if one downloads a text file with
no line breaks except for paragraphs, one can see just one long line per
paragraph.  Try to print that and who knows what you'll get.

Line wrapping depends on the window size.  This request makes the file
width be a specific number of characters wide.  I'd like to see that
too.  Sometimes I load up another editor just to do this function.

chuck


Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:28:12 -0400, "Lee Gold" <leegold at operamail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> It needs a line wrap button. It's a major mistake not to have one.
>> This is a text editor after all. Isn't it?
> 
> I guess you mean a toolbar button to quickly enable/disable line
> wrapping?
> 
> For a toolbar button we would need an icon first.
> But maybe it isn't necessary at all:
> - there is a menu item in the Document menu to enable/disable it for
> the current file
> - there is a keybinding "Toggle Line wrapping" to enable/disable it for
> the current document
> - and there is a option in the prefs dialog to enable/disable it
> globally for all files
> 
> Isn't this enough?
> 
> Regards,
> Enrico
> 
> 
> 
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