From: David M. <dav...@gm...> - 2005-04-10 19:02:59
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Thanks, Peter. I must have missed that thread in my archive search. I still might give it a try, or at least mess around with it until I get a better idea of how significant the changes would have to be. Would any of the lisp code be affected, or just the Java? -Dave On Apr 8, 2005 4:30 PM, Peter Graves <pe...@ar...> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 at 09:41:49 -0700, David Martin wrote: > > 1. Are there any plans to add support for soft line wrapping? To me > > this is an important capability, because there are cases (with xslt, > > for example), where one cannot avoid having very long lines of text. > > If there are no such plans, would there be any objection to my taking > > a try at implementing it? > > Assuming that you mean display-only line wrapping, the way emacs > does it, this feature has been requested and discussed before. See this > thread, for example: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.j.devel/650 > > In particular: > > It would be, I think, a very big deal to change the display code to > provide this behavior as an option. There's quite a bit of code > that relies on a one-to-one correspondence between display lines > and actual lines of text in editable buffers; basic things like > cursor movement and selection are sure to break if that assumption > no longer holds. In theory one could go on to fix the breakage and > eventually come out on the other side, but it would be an > architectural change and a big undertaking. > > It would be a nice feature to have, but I don't have any plans to do it > myself any time soon. You're certainly welcome to have a crack at it, > but please consider all of the caveats mentioned in the discussion > referenced above. > > > 2. Are there any sites containing J extensions beyond what is included > > in the distribution? > > Not that I'm aware of. > > -Peter > |