[Geany] Question about Line Breaking option's behaviour

Russell Dickenson russelldickenson at xxxxx
Wed Jun 1 01:19:41 UTC 2011


On 1 June 2011 09:49, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 June 2011 07:45, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at 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


-- 
Russell Dickenson



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