On Tuesday 28 January 2020 19:57:02 Default User wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 12:18 Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > 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 > > Gene, thank you for your review of Gedit, and your mention of Geany - > it looks interesting (although it too seems to lack the margin setting > capability).
Look for "word wrap" in its copious pulldowns. Its there someplace. > > Curt, yes I really did mean right margin, not left. I never could tell > my right from my left. Thank you for the link you provided. That too > looks interesting. I will try it tomorrow. > > BTW, there is LibreOffice Writer, which does have the margin setting > capability, but is really overkill for many (most?) uses. > > And of course there is Emacs, which can do anything. Which I have been > meaning to learn, as soon as I win the lottery and thus have nothing > else to do for the next 10 years. The lottery money will also be > needed to pay for medical care for the resultant carpal tunnel > syndrome. By golly, he's got it! :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>