Looking for the Perfect Editor

stu yakumo9275 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 22:36:16 EDT 2006


OKB (not okblacke) wrote:
> 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.
>

jEdit.. cough.. does this just fine... sticky indent without adding
linebreaks...
or you can have sticky indent with linebreaks... its up to you

-stu




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