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[Bug 318517] Re: Word wrapping is not respecting indentation

 

This would be nice...

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Title:
  Word wrapping is not respecting indentation

Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
  New
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gedit

  When wrapping a line it would be awesome to have gedit indent the
  wrapped line just like the original line.

  Imagine "_" being a space character, the current wrapping works like
  this

  ____hello hello hello hello hello
  hello hello hello

  It would be better if it worked like this:

  ____hello hello hello hello hello
  ____hello hello hello

  While editing this makes code-indentation readable even if the editing
  window is resized to be very narrow. It is also very helpful for
  unavoidable long lines, like regexps or URLs. It makes formatting less
  of a pain with generated code. etc etc etc

  KDE editor component and Eclipse both have this behaviour, it was also
  present in the famous EditPlus editor for Windows.

  I am sure i am not the first person requesting this feature, so i
  wonder if there is a philosophical stance against this wrapping style
  or if a plugin is available to handle it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Jan 18 20:17:05 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
  Package: gedit 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gedit
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

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