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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#22498: "Soft Wrap"
From:       Randy Kramer <rhkramer () fast ! net>
Date:       2001-06-30 13:54:19
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"Me too" ;-)

Many editors (or similar) have this feature, usually (and preferably as
an option), including: 

-nedit
-knotes
-UltraEdit
-notepad (sorry)
-wordpad (")
-word (")
-AbiWord ;-)

A few clarifications or additions:

-If you save the file with soft wrapping enabled, it should save the
affected wrapped lines as long lines, not wrapped, i.e., no added \n's.

-Nedit displays a special symbol at the end of each line (the enter /
return "down and back arrow") -- I prefer not to see this -- suggest if
you provide it, make it an option.

-In word you can find such wrapped lines by enabling display of "hidden
characters" which will show the backwards p at the end of each
"complete" line (aka paragraph in their terminology) -- thus if you
don't see the backwards p at the end of a line you know it is a
softwrapped line.

Aside: This feature should be in kedit and kmail as well (and probably
other KDE programs, like the KDE IDE (can't think of the name)).  I
submitted a bug report to kmail but it got closed -- I think I was not
very clear. (Or maybe it got implemented in 2.2, or even 2.1 (I haven't
tried kmail since at least partially because of the difficulty in
displaying messages without this feature (and also because I have to do
a new setup of my system to enable a local MTA -- currently I do all my
mail on Windows, and access the mail directory from several different
machines)).)

Thanks for the good work on KWrite -- syntax highlighting is a big help,
and KWrite is quite good as an advanced editor!  (Haven't really tried
it as a word processor yet, AFAICT at a quick glance, it does not handle
collapsible outlining, styles, templates, Word import and export, or
macros, all of which I'd look for in a replacement for Word.  BTW:
AbiWord will have all of these ;-)  (Has styles, "rudimentary"
templates, Word import, and rudimentary macros (Perl bindings, in Linux
only, after version 0.7.14) already.)

(AbiWord does not and may never have syntax highlighting, in the words
of one of their developers.)

Regards,
Randy Kramer

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