[TxMt] About Line Wrapping

Xavier Noria fxn at hashref.com
Thu Dec 16 17:47:08 UTC 2004


On Dec 16, 2004, at 6:35 PM, Éric Jacoboni wrote:

>> in fact you're the first to actually mention it as a desired
>> feature ;) ).
>
> Well... I suppose TextMate is mainly used by developpers. Soft Wrap is
> enough then.
>
> But when it comes to typing text (e.g. XML/LaTeX), hard wrap is an
> essential feature, imho.

In addition to text and text-like modes, depending on the 
sophistication of the editor wrapping is language-aware, so you get 
multi-line comments in C whose rewrapper gets the bullets right, 
paragraphs in POD sections in Perl, etc. All of them use true newlines. 
I seldom use soft wrap in fact.

-- fxn




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