Looking for the Perfect Editor

Jorge Godoy jgodoy at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 21:42:48 EDT 2006


"OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn at NObrenSPAMbarn.net> writes:

>     	What I'm interested in knowing is whether anyone has found any 
> editor other than TextPad and UltraEdit which allows soft word-wrap (no 
> line breaks stored in the file) which do NOT wrap the text to the left 
> edge of the screen but instead wrap it back only as far as the 
> indentation level of the beginning of the line.  So that if I start out 
> on a line indented halfway across the screen, and the line wraps, I get 
> a block of text, all of which is indented halfway across the screen -- 
> but then it's saved in the file as one long line.  In other words, an 
> editor that separates how the text is DISPLAYED from how it's SAVED.

WYSINWYG -> What You See Is Not What You Get...

It doesn't make much sense to me, though.  With Emacs I get the wrapping the
way you want, but it really breaks the lines. 

-- 
Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy at gmail.com>



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