[Geany] Problem with paragraph wrap function

[Lex Trotman]

On 17 February 2011 18:52, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 February 2011 13:46, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17 February 2011 13:38, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I often use Geany's paragraph wrap function - tied to Control+J - but
>>> have a minor problem. I have set "Line breaking column" to '80' and
>>> "Long line marker" also to '80. The paragraph wrap function works as I
>>> expect, except for one minor point. I am expecting the lines to be
>>> wrapped at the 80 column mark but instead the lines are being wrapped
>>> a little short of this.
>>>
>>> I just did a test, for example, and had the word "it" wrapped onto a
>>> new line when in fact it would have been able to fit on the previous
>>> line. Do I misunderstand how this function is to work, or have I
>>> mis-configured the line length settings?
>>
>> Hi Russell,
>>
>> Geany uses Line breaking column if its set, otherwise it uses the long
>> line display setting if its set, so I'd say you have them set right.
>>
>> The splitting is done by Scintilla the editing component Geany uses.
>> I have also noticed that it seems to be somewhat pessimistic about
>> what will fit on the line, though it is accurate about deciding when
>> to split lines.  Same goes for wrapping lines at the window edge,
>> although note that in that case it has to leave room for the wrap
>> marker which makes its pessimism more understandable.
>>
>> I think it might be doing the same for split lines.
>>
>> I notice also in the Scintilla bugs it says that some extra space is
>> left at the end of lines due to italics problems, don't know if thats
>> part of it.
>>
>> If it is a problem for you try submitting a bug on Scintilla,
>> http://www.scintilla.org/.
>
> Thanks for your detailed explanation. I think I will raise a bug
> against Scintilla. In the meantime I might try setting the "Line
> breaking column" to longer than the "Long line display" number, and
> see what results I get. Of course I would then have text temporarily
> past the long line indicator but that's OK because it's only an
> indicator and there are times when you don't want lines being broken.
> For those where I do want the text to remain within the 80 columns (in
> this case), having the line break number set to higher may give the
> right result when I activate the "Rewrap paragraph" function. I'll
> report my results here whatever happens.
>
>>
>> By the way all bets are off if you are not using a single fixed width
>> font since "column" is meaningless in that case :-)
>
> It's always best to check this but yes, I am using a monospace font.
>

Yep & don't forget to check that any highlighting doesn't change it,
some fonts change size when bold or italic.

Cheers
Lex