How do I enforce an automatic line-break?
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I've been plodding through my MS, line-by-line, installing line breaks at column 67 (my preference), and THERE MUST BE AN EASIER WAY!!!
Macros?
But I don't see a way to define the default line-length, and in an editor as smart as this one, I'm sure therre IS a way.
HelloOO?
[stevnewb@att.net]
The TextFX Edit Plugin has an option to wrap all the text at whatever column you want. It's a one off process, so if you add lines you'll have to do it again, but better than doing it by hand.
Are there any editors that actually insert a newline when they wrap?
Are you just adding a line break every 67 characters, or are you going to the 67th character, backing up to a break point (e.g. after a white space character or puntuation mark)?
If you are just adding a line break every 67 characters you can do a regex replace of:
(..............................................) #using 67 '.'s, each '.' represents any character
with:
\1\n
(and then change EOL style from unix to whatever platform you are using)
If you are going to the 67th character then backing up to a break point, I don't know how to do that using regex (or even if you can in regex). Instead I would write a script (perl/python/ruby/pick your favorite scripting language) to break up the text in the file.