On 25/10/2007, at 02:59, Guido Governatori wrote:
Is there any way to have automatic hard wrapping?
No
I usually write LaTeX (or other text based files) and keep the source under version control with subversion (and exchange files with colleagues). So often I use diff tools to check the differences between version [...]
Hard wrapping here is IMO not a solution to this problem. Say you add a word to the first line that causes the following lines to be wrapped differently, or somebody rewraps a paragraph to another column width -- now you actually did cause multiple lines to be changed.
I know though that the present diff “support” for prose sucks since it is line based. There are however sub-line diff visualizers and I have long wanted for us to include such one in TextMate, maybe default to use sub-line diff for the text.* scope.
If anyone got recommendations for nice sub-line diff visualizers [1] let me know.
[1]: I.e. producing some nice HTML to display the differences.