Re: mcedit - wordwrap

[James Freer <jessejazza3 uk gmail com>]

On 5 September 2014 00:32, James Freer <jessejazza3 uk 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