Topic: Line-numbers and word-wrap (1 of 6), Read 74 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Michael Baas
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2003 04:56 AM

Hi,

when using ww and line-numbers ("Show rulers"), the wrapped lined get
a new number - I find that quite confusing. IMHO it would be better to
just display a symbol to indicate line-continuation (just use one of
"^-_." )

Cheers

Michael

 

Topic: Re: Line-numbers and word-wrap (2 of 6), Read 73 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Ted Green
Date: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:33 PM

At 04:57 AM 8/14/2003, you wrote:
> when using ww and line-numbers ("Show rulers"), the wrapped lined get
>a new number - I find that quite confusing. IMHO it would be better to
>just display a symbol to indicate line-continuation (just use one of
>"^-_." )

You evidently want the line numbers to correspond to "physical" lines instead of displayed lines. However, VEDIT is currently designed to treat each wrapped line as a new line; therefore it would be too complex to implement your request.

Ted.

 

Topic: AW: Line-numbers and word-wrap (3 of 6), Read 74 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Michael Baas
Date: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:47 PM

> You evidently want the line numbers to correspond to "physical" lines
instead of displayed lines. However,
> VEDIT is currently designed to treat each wrapped line as a new line;
therefore it would be too complex
> to implement your request.

The word "currently" makes me hope :-)

Cheers

Michael

 

Topic: AW: Line-numbers and word-wrap (4 of 6), Read 77 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Rich Hureau
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 07:58 AM

If you use the Horizontal scroll margin feature (Configuration/Display options/Horizontal scroll margin) instead of Word Wrap, you will get what you want - lines that wrap and line numbers on the ruler that correspond to the physical lines. The only thing you lose is that the wrap is not smart - it doesn't wrap on the space between words.

For editing long line files like HTML files, the Hor. Scroll margin option is perfect. You can also enable it with the command CF(E_SCRL_MARG,1). Don't use it together with Word Wrap - you'll get really odd results, which makes sense, because they are conflicting settings in a way.

As far as using the wordwrap feature, I know of another editor where, if you have wordwrap enabled, it is IMPOSSIBLE to distinguish one long wrapped line from 2 short lines. Turning on the line numbers doesn't help, because, like Vedit, it renumbers the lines based on the display, not on physical lines. However, Vedit DOES display the linefeed character at the end of lines, so it doesn't really have this problem. If it didn't display the linefeed, I would agree with you that the wordwrap display is confusing.

Myself, I just always use horizontal scroll margin.

 

Topic: Re: AW: Line-numbers and word-wrap (5 of 6), Read 81 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Ted Green
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 02:14 PM

At 07:59 AM 8/26/2003, you wrote:
>If you use the Horizontal scroll margin feature (Configuration/Display options/Horizontal scroll margin) instead of Word Wrap, you will get what you want -

Thank you for pointing out that this option is available too.

Ted.

 

Topic: Re: AW: Line-numbers and word-wrap (6 of 6), Read 84 times
Conf: Basic editing, Block operations
From: Michael Baas
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 05:28 AM



On Tue, 26 Aug 2003
07:59:51 -0400, Richard Hureau wrote:
 style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> If you use the Horizontal scroll margin
feature
 style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> (Configuration/Display
options/Horizontal scroll margin) instead of style="font-family:'Tahoma';">
style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> Word Wrap, you will get what you want -
lines that wrap and line style="font-family:'Tahoma';">
...


 


Thanks - I really had forgotten about
that :-)


That's better for my purposes than
ww.


 


Michael