Hi,

I'm evaluating TextMate as a MacVim replacement for my LaTeX writing.

What bugs me is that it does not seem to indent and hard wrap text automatically at all when editing existing paragraphs. MacVim does this very nicely when the appropriate "format-options" are turned on.

I found this message regarding indentation: http://lists.macromates.com/textmate/2009-August/029269.html

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Is there a way to make the indentation continue on the second and third, etc. line of the \item? Something like this:

I assume you are asking for indented soft wrap, in which case the answer is no.

What would the answer be for indented *hard* wrap?

What I would like is to be able to just remove some words of any indented line (e.g. within a \item line) and have TextMate continuously reflow and re-indent the text for me. - If I press backspace before the first non-white space character of a line, it should just jump back to the end of the previous line instead of removing the indentation tabs or spaces. - If I'm changing a line that begins with \item to \end{itemize}, it should automatically outdent to the correct indentation level. - etc. In other words, if at all, it should only be possible to change indentation manually using opt-tab and opt-shift-tab.

For some limited time, I could maybe live with having to press a key to manually trigger the re-flowing and re-indenting process, but none of the provided commands seem to do much good in this case.

I attached a macro I've developed that handles the latter (only soft tabs are supported); please let me know if there is an alternative way of achieving this.

I wonder if any enhancement regarding automatic reflowing of hard wrapped text is planned for TM 2?

Thanks, Sam