Re: [gedit-list] Line wrapping when a dot is preceded but not followed by a space

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

Jean-Philippe Fleury wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about line wrapping when a dot is preceded but not
> followed by a space, whenever we're working with plain text or any
> syntax highlighting. Say we have this single line (no line break):
>
> Contenu de `$boites`: .fichierConfigAdminGaleries,
> #ajoutParametresAdminGaleries, .aideAdminGaleries
>
> On my gedit working area, I got 97 characters wide, and the string above
> has 100 characters. There should be a line wrap after this:
>
> "#ajoutParametresAdminGaleries,"
>
> but gedit treats
>
> "#ajoutParametresAdminGaleries, .aideAdminGaleries"
>
> as a single word. Since there's a space before ".aideAdminGaleries", is
> this behavior normal? Should not it be instead considered as two words?
>   
The soft wrapping is implemented in GtkTextView which uses pango word 
boundaries as far as I know. Maybe they changed something recently, 
because I also thought it should wrap that differently. Anyway, the 
proper place to file a bug about this is GtkTextView (or possibly pango).
> See the attached screen shots that illustrates what I mean.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean-Philippe
>   
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