How to Manage Auto-Formatting in Text Editors with EmEditor

October 3, 2008 at 9:02 pm #6303

Stefan

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> There is no automatic way to do this,
> but you can do that manually after writing a paragraph.
> After selecting text, you can click right mouse button,
> select Convert Selection, and then Split Lines.

It took me some time to find out how this works to split lines.

Before you can split lines you have to enable one of the wrap modes.

1.) Wrap lines with one of the three modes till your lines are wrapped the way you like it.
(this wraps all lines in the whole text)
Use “Wrap by Characters Strg+2” to split after x chars (use “Tools > Properties > General > Normal Lines Margin” to set char count)
2.) Now select the lines you want to split for ever
3.) “click right mouse button, select Convert Selection, and then Split Lines.”
Now this lines are spitted to single lines, all others are wrapped only.
Then use an other wrap mode to see the remnant text in an proper way again.

If ‘No Wrap’ mode is enabled, then “Split Lines” is greyed out.
This is not an familiar way… but i will check it out :-D

Better would be if split would work with ‘No Wrap Strg+1’ too.
Maybe show an dialog to enter the amount of chars to split after.
Yes, imho it’s better to have “split lines” independent from “Wrap”
That way we could wrap lines “By WIndow” Strg+3 but still split some lines at “char 72”

That way we could reformat paragraphs more easy.
:-) What do you think Yutaka?

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