[ jEdit-users ] Soft wrap and indenting?

[William M. S. <wm...@ig...>]

Hi. I'm a new JEdit user (4.0.3), but haven't been able to get one of
the features that really interested me to work properly: soft wrap on
source code.

Basically, I feel that I've wasted way to much of my time shuffling
around carriage returns when I add parameters to function calls or
rename variables to new longer name. Soft wrap seems a perfect solution;
I can just type the code and let the editor worry about where to put the
carriage return.

But JEdit seems to always wrap my code so that each line is indented the
same as the first - that is, when I type a line, I get something like:

   foo = funcName(arg1, arg2,
   arg3, arg4);

This seems bizarre to me. If I add a hard carriage return after the
arg2, any of the java style formatters (JavaStyle, etc.), know to make
it look like:

   foo = funcName(arg1, arg2,
                  arg3, arg4);

which is much more readable. Since there are plugins that know how to
indent a wrapped line of java, is there a way to make the soft wrap
feature use them when it wraps? I can't find any mention of how to do
this in the help or FAQ or mailing list archives! If there isn't
currently any way to do this, is there anybody out there besides me who
would really like to see this work properly? Or is everybody else happy
with always typing and adjusting the linebreaks by hand?

Thanks for any advice people have. JEdit is nifty as is, if only it
could do this, then it would be just about perfect...well, if only it
could do this nad it got rid of those @!*#@!$ modal windows then it
would be perfect. The only thing that bothers me more about JEdit than
adjusting CR's by hand is when I want to scroll my text buffer to look
at something but I can't because I haven't yet closed some modal
dialogue.