Soft Wrapping and Indentation

[TK Soh]

On 7/27/06, Joerg Fischer <jf505 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Thomas Orgis wrote:
>
> >Is it difficult to implement?
>
> Ideally it shouldn't, but probably it is.  I mean I don't know
> exactly, but there must be some reason why NEdit falls behind
> compared with much simpler editors in such simple looking visual
> things like eg how files can be displayed.
>
> Take notepad++ for example.  It's another open source editor based
> on the scintilla component.  There is no problem of simply
> re-ordering the editor tabs by drag and drop, lines of the buffer
> can be shown or hidden as you like (this is probably important also
> for folding) and windows can be cloned providing different views of
> the same file.

IMHO:

1. Motif is [very] old. scintilla is new.

2. notepad++ doesn't run on *nix, _especially_ the legacy ones. To be
fair, I've yet to see another [free] editor out there that is capable
of such power + ease of use, and yet still run on OS like Solaris 2.6
(for me) and HPUX 10.x.

3. Have you try the cloning patch and drag-n-drop patch?

> While NEdit is much better than notepad++ in regex support, syntax
> highlighting, macros, key bindings, and editing of course (there is
> also a real manual),  it falls behind in this seemingly simple
> visual or GUI stuff - this is rather pity.
>
> So, I guess it isn't easy to implement it into NEdit.

Else where's fun in it. ;-)