[gedit-list] "Fixing" long line indentation (aka smart indent)

[Matt Chaput <matt sidefx com>]

Hi gedit mailing list,

I work at Side Effects Software in the documentation department. Side 
Effects Software makes Houdini, a very advanced 3D animation and effects 
package used in most films made today, as well as in games and commercials.

We use a custom-built wiki markup/parser to write the documentation. We 
need a text editor with the ability to easily specify a custom syntax 
coloring for our markup, as well as modern GUI conveniences that 
non-technical people expect. Currently we're using a somewhat obscure 
Windows-only editor called EditPad Pro, but we're trying to switch to 
something better.

I've evaluated SublimeText 2, Komodo Edit, GEdit, and Kate. Gedit scores 
extremely well on our criteria, with one deal-breaker: lack of soft-wrap 
with smart indent (by which I mean that wrapped "virtual" lines should 
retain the visual indentation of the "real" line):

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559132

This is basically the only thing preventing me from pulling the trigger 
on switching our company to using gedit for docs (and telling our 
customers such as Pixar, ILM, and Dreamworks to use gedit to edit the 
docs for their custom Houdini assets).

So, I'm motivated to try to get this fixed. I as a lowly technical 
writer probably can't get the company to pay to have this fixed. 
However, I might be able to have one of our co-ops tasked with fixing 
this if we could find a GTK/gedit dev to mentor them. Or, I could trade 
work on the gedit documentation for gedit devs fixing this directly.

Any ideas on where I should go from here? Any sense of how much work 
this would be to fix? Anyone thinking of working on this that I can 
convince/motivate/bribe to get started?

Thanks,

Matt Chaput
Side Effects Software documentation

tl;dr: I'd like to work with the gedit devs to try to get this fixed: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559132