Re: [Usability] Re: Text wrapping in gedit

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 3 Oct, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 02/10/2005 alle 21.13 -0400, michael chang ha scritto:
> > No, it's not, because if he switches it off once, he switches it off
> > forever for all documents except those he's turned it on or left it on
> > for.  This is the key difference.
> ...
> This may indeed be an interesting idea, though not without its
> drawbacks. Taking the decision just on the first file the user ever
> opens is a bit arbitrary... what if the guess was wrong? How can the
> user rectify the setting?
> ...

By changing it in a subsequent file. So changing the wrapping mode in 
any file would remember it for (a) that file, and (b) all new files 
from then on.

A further improvement would be to remember wrapping per filetype: 
changing the wrapping mode for a file of known type would remember it 
for (a) that file, (b) all new files of that type from then on, and (c) 
all files of types that had not yet had a wrapping mode set. Changing 
the filetype with "View" > "Highlight" (which might need to be renamed, 
and would definitely need to be above "View" > "Line Wrapping") would 
change the wrapping to the default for that filetype, unless the 
wrapping had been changed previously for that individual file.

The same approach could be applied to get rid of many things from the 
Preferences window.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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