Hi, I was wondering what is the correct way of wrapping text while typing in SciTE. SciTE can wrap the text, but it is basically a virtual wrap, it is a long line tailored to the view of your editing window. On the other hand you can wrap the lines yourself by pressing enter wherever you think it is necessary. Which one of these methods is better? Or maybe there are better alternatives? Cheers, Hooman
Hooman Javidnia wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering what is the correct way of wrapping text while typing in SciTE. SciTE can wrap the text, but it is basically a virtual wrap, it is a long line tailored to the view of your editing window. On the other hand you can wrap the lines yourself by pressing enter wherever you think it is necessary. Which one of these methods is better? Or maybe there are better alternatives?
if you use the properties files that come with context (as well as the lua script) then you have a justification option as well as spell checking (justification: the margin is set to the first position in the selection, which is handy for aligning e.g. itemizations) Hans
I was wondering what is the correct way of wrapping text while typing in SciTE. SciTE can wrap the text, but it is basically a virtual wrap, it is a long line tailored to the view of your editing window. On the other hand you can wrap the lines yourself by pressing enter wherever you think it is necessary. Which one of these methods is better? Or maybe there are better alternatives?
I use the "one long line per paragraph" approach. The reason is simple: it is fairly simple to wrap the lines afterwards. It is far from simple to unwrap them if you have the hard line breaks. Also, with soft (or virtual) wrapping you can add or remove text without any hassle. So, I cannot figure out any common situation where hard formatting would be significantly better. Just my two eurocents. - Ville
Ville Voipio wrote:
I was wondering what is the correct way of wrapping text while typing in SciTE. SciTE can wrap the text, but it is basically a virtual wrap, it is a long line tailored to the view of your editing window. On the other hand you can wrap the lines yourself by pressing enter wherever you think it is necessary. Which one of these methods is better? Or maybe there are better alternatives?
I use the "one long line per paragraph" approach. The reason is simple: it is fairly simple to wrap the lines afterwards. It is far from simple to unwrap them if you have the hard line breaks. Also, with soft (or virtual) wrapping you can add or remove text without any hassle.
I normally use hard line breaks, for some reasons: * I use 'grep' a lot. grepping long lines is problematic, at best * It is easier to comment/uncomment short lines, or to add remarks * Editor navigation is somewhat easier. Home/End are not very useful for long lines * line numbers in TeX warnings and errors make more sense * easier to copy and paste to my e-mail client All very personal preferences, just use what you like best Cheers, taco
Am 2006-01-20 um 10:50 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
* It is easier to comment/uncomment short lines, or to add remarks
If you need that you can still hard wrap.
* Editor navigation is somewhat easier. Home/End are not very useful for long lines
That's only a problem with vi ;-)
* line numbers in TeX warnings and errors make more sense
That matters only if you use a lot or markup.
* easier to copy and paste to my e-mail client
But only if you use the same line length there. And it's very inconvenient if you happen to copy to a word processor or DTP program. I really hate editors that force their hard wrapping on me. In most cases I try to let paragraphs in whole (as I'm used to from other apps).
All very personal preferences, just use what you like best
Indeed. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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