On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:00:44 +1100 Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18 March 2012 09:42, Toni Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am new Geany user and in this mailing list so Hi all from Spain. > > > > With your permission, i will start with a question. > > > > I am running Geany 0.21 on Ubuntu. > > > > I have setting "Line breaking column" in Prefs at 72 and "Line > > Breaking" option enabled. When i type a word past this limit Geany > > insert a carriage return at the end of the line and put the cursor > > on the line below. Now on the same paragraph if i do a "Reflow > > Lines/Block" the lines are cut at 70 position. The same for > > diferents "Line breaking column" values (cuts at 2 less "Line > > breaking column" value). > > > > Is this a right behavior ? Thanks. > > (Sorry for my sorry English) > > > > Hi Toni, > > This is known behaviour. The two ways of doing line breaking are > performed differently. > > The difference between the two is that line breaking on input is > performed by Geany based on character columns, whereas reflow is > performed by Scintilla (the editing component Geany uses) using line > widths in pixels calculated based on the width of a space in the > default style. > > We are not sure why these are different (at least when everything uses > fixed fonts) but it may be due to differences in counting columns (ie > is column 72 on the left of the character or the right?), different > handling of trailing spaces and off-by-one pixel counts cause the > latter to break more conservatively than the former. > > IIRC fiddling with offsets didn't seem to cure it, so until someone > authoritatively finds why the difference there is no known cure. > Hi guys. First of all, I must tell that it was me who proposed a patch to implement split/join lines commands in Geany which eventually became "Reflow paragraph". Second point, even I don't remember why I didn't reuse the code implementing line breaking option (which was already written then). Maybe, as I already used SCI_JOINLINES, I considered SCI_SPLITLINES first and it did the job rather well (but not perfectly, as I understood after quite some time). Third point, there are already some bug reports on the same topic (just search the bug tracker for "reflow"): 1.https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3293009&group_id=153444&atid=787791 My summary: SCI_SPLITLINES breaks lines on style boundary. I think, this behaviour is unneeded and sometimes just wrong for "reflow" 2.https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2982136&group_id=153444&atid=787791 An older bug report on the same topic as (1) 3.http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2871809&group_id=153444&atid=787791 Line is broken too early (just what Toni talks about). I posted a long comment to this bug report (my nick on SourceForge is statc), particularly explaining why Scintilla does not work "properly". 4.http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2923338&group_id=153444&atid=787791 Seems to be a duplicate of (3) Fourth point, for some time I was going to raise a topic about reimplementing "Reflow paragraph" myself. Two things stopped me from doing it: (1) an absence of free time; (2) the fact that I propose other little patches to Geany from time to time and I don't want to bother Geany developers / maintainers too much. Some time ago I posted a bug report to Scintilla [1]. They don't want to refine SCI_SPLITLINES, so my proposal is to rewrite "Reflow paragraph" reusing the code which implements line breaking. I can do it myself, but not now. Sorry for a long message. I'm now waiting for a reply on my proposal. [1]:<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3475314&group_id=2439&atid=102439> -- Best regards, Eugene. _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
