On 5 September 2014 00:32, James Freer <jessejazza3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, tooth pik wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:26:49AM +0100, James Freer wrote: >>> >>> I've just started using mc. I was wondering if mcedit does soft >>> wordwrap or just hard line wordwrap. It does paragraph formatting >>> like nano and pico do but not from what I can see is softwrap. >> >> >>> When I say softwrap I mean like emac's 'visual line mode' (Vim does >>> aswell but can't remember the command). >> >> >> do you mean >> >> :set textwidth=72 >> >> and >> >> :set wrap >> >> those commands? > > > No... in vim I remember it now it's :set linebreak and leaves the textwidth > as default. > > >>> The GUI editors e.g. Leafpad, gedit, kate all do. I wanted to use >>> mcedit as a prose text editor and so want to 'wrap' entire paragraphs. >> >> >> IMHO you can't do better than vim, and it integrates seamlessly with mc > > > Thing is I don't really want all the tweaks and 101 options - both emacs and > vim are excellent editors but 'heavy' for me as a non IT geek. But I do like > the console and was switching to mc and hoped mcedit might be what I was > hoping for. Vim has an irritating @ at the end of file and I find the > keybindings awkward. > > Of all the 1001 editors there does not seem to be a console editor capable > of softwrap. I was hoping mcedit was just what I was looking for. > > thanks > james
Just been looking again. In mcedit in the Options menu under General there is 'dynamic paragraphing' and 'type writer wrap'. Just tried them - dynamic paragraphing didn't seem to do anything but type writer wrap does but line length is a bit short... likely to be a way of extending that though. james _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
