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Feature request: ReWrap (and a bug)

2007-06-06
2012-11-14
  • Idris Samawi Hamid

    Hi,

    I switched to Notepad++ from WinEdt. One of the latter's greatest features is its
    word-wrapping capabilities. I assume that Notepad++ is limited by Scintilla in this regard, but the TextFX-Edit rewrap feature is handy.

    This feature will be more handy if there were a shortcut for it. I tried a macro recording but that does not work and produces garbage in place of wrapping. A shortcut for wrapping would be very useful!

    BTW: WinEdt uses

    SHIFT-ALT-INSERT to select a paragraph
    CTRL-ALT-INSERT  to format paragraphs
    SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-INSERT to format the entire document.

    One "bug" with the rewrap feature is that it does not respect indented lines.
    Ideally the wrapping of a paragraph should not kill its indentation; it should wrap and keep the indentation intact.

    Best
    Idris
    [also posted in Open Discussion but this seems like the better place; sorry for the double post]

     
    • Don HO

      Don HO - 2007-06-09

      I suppose that you're talking about splite line feature.
      It's available in menu Edit.

      Don

       
      • Idris Samawi Hamid

        Hi Don,

        I just checked out the split lines feature; thank you for pointing it out!

        I have a question though: What is the difference between the split-lines and the rewrap-text (plugin) features? The two often produce rather different results: split-lines will produce lines which are nearly empty at times, while rewrapping will make more even line-breaks. So a shortcut for rewrapping would still be useful.

        But this is great feature in any case!

        Thnx again
        Idris

         
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