Re: Word wrap in Textview, how?

[Yu Wang <xiaohuwang hotmail com>]

muppet <scott <at> asofyet.org> writes:

> On Jul 29, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Yu Wang wrote:
>
> > I want to have a textview widget behaves like a simple text editor.  
> > The desired
> > right margin at column is 80 characters, and text row with its  
> > length larger
> > than 80 chars will be wrapped back to a new line.
> >
> > What is the right way to do this?
>
>  From what i understand, TextView wraps text at the right edge of the  
> view.  That is, where the wrap breaks depends on the width of the  
> widget.
>
> If you want the text to wrap at column 80 regardless of how many  
> columns are visible, then, um, you may have to resort to hackery,  


Thank you very much for sharing the code! That solves my problem.

Now I am wondering if it is possible to show a grey vertical line at the 80th
column? Just like the margin line in gedit.

Thanks.