Re: [Usability] Re: Text wrapping in gedit

[Daniel Borgmann <daniel borgmann gmail com>]

FWIW, that is exactly how I do it in Scratchpad: A per-document
setting and it defaults to line wrapping for plain text, no line
wrapping for everything else.

This is probably what you want in 99% of the cases and I find it very
convenient. It will not work well for the 2 in 1000 users who
regularly get plain text files which require no line wrapping, they
will be forced to take the three seconds for toggling the option on
each document. I'm not convinced that's a critical issue, but you
could still have a global preference option for default line wrapping
(e.g. "automatic", "always wrap" and "never wrap").

Maybe there is a magic solution that works even better, but I would
not suggest to wait until it is found, because it might well not
exist.

As a side-note, this is somewhat similar to popup blocking in
Epiphany: You can set the default in the preferences, but you can also
toggle it via the menu on a per-site basis.

Daniel