On 2020-01-28, Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Okay, I'm stumped. > > I'm running 64-bit Debian unstable, Cinnamon desktop environment. > > All I want to do is set the Gedit left margin to 80 characters, so that > text hard-wraps (or at least soft-wraps) at that point.
Don't you mean "right" instead of "left"? Or are you composing in Hebrew? > Currently, with the word-wrap setting in Gedit selected, and a visual > representation of a margin showing at column 80, text will sail right on by > the bogus margin at 80 characters, not wrapping until it reaches the left > edge of the display. A hands-on experimental session with Gedit has not revealed to this correspondent the way forward here. > After doing some research, it seems that it may not even be possible in > Gedit to set a real, functional left margin to 80 characters. All I could find was this: https://ssplab.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/hard-word-wrapping-in-gedit/ > What? Dumbfounding. > Well, can it be done? Hoop, meet jumper. > And if not, (rhetorical question) why not? > Rhetorical. Gotcha. -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin Artaud