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XML word wrap mode
by Rayiner Hashem on Thursday 10/Oct/2002, @18:35

I have a question about XML editors. Is there any XML editor, preferably on KDE, that handles word-wrap correctly when used with XML indentation? Editing DocBook in Kate or KWrite is really painful. You have to manually insert newlines, which breaks formatting if you want to add more text in the middle of the paragraph. If you use word wrap, then indentation gets screwed up, the next line starts entirely left-justified, instead of following the previous line's indnetation.

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Re: XML word wrap mode
by buba on Thursday 10/Oct/2002, @19:08

Kate-cvs has word-wrap.
Quanta uses kate for editing..
So wait for KDE 3.1

Buba

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Re: XML word wrap mode
by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 10/Oct/2002, @20:03

It's had word wrap. I think they are referring to a more intelligent soft wrap. Last I heard Christoph was working on that. I heard they did not think it would make it into 3.1 and I have not noted it in either beta. Regardless as soon as your version of KDE/Kate has it then it appears in Quanta.

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Re: XML word wrap mode
by eva on Thursday 10/Oct/2002, @23:54

It's in CVS, but a bit hard to find. There's a switch "Dynamic Word Wrap" in Menu "View". It isn't in the configure dialog.

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Re: XML word wrap mode
by Moritz Moeller-Herrmann on Friday 11/Oct/2002, @01:17

Wow, and I was still using kedit for soft wrap. Thank you!

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Re: XML word wrap mode
by Eric Laffoon on Friday 11/Oct/2002, @01:35

Thanks! It seems it snuck in on beta 2 but not beta 1. We will address this setting promptly.

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Re: XML word wrap mode
by Hamish Rodda on Friday 11/Oct/2002, @07:09

Yep. It went in just after beta2 was tagged (we've been working on it in a branch for a while). Please test it and report any bugs you find so it's solid for 3.1 - I don't know of any bugs at the moment. It also needs some usability testing (what should the behaviour of the home / end keys be?).

You can turn it on by default in editor -> view defaults.

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Re: XML word wrap mode
by eva on Saturday 12/Oct/2002, @08:29

Hey, cool. Didn't notice yet, that the dynamic wrap already made it into the configuration :-)

To me the dynamic word wrap already seems to be very stable. Didn't have any problems yet. Great work!

BTW, some configuration of dynamic word wrap dependent on the current file type would be great. E.g. I'd like to have dynamic word wrap in tex files, but not in C++ source code. (Sorry, couldn't resist to post this wish ;-)

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Per-mimetype configs
by Hamish Rodda on Sunday 13/Oct/2002, @01:59

There's some work going on towards a Kate plugin to fulfill this need... :)

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