Re: How to set Gedit left margin to 80 characters
On 2020-01-28, Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, I'm stumped.
>
> I'm running 64-bit Debian unstable, Cinnamon desktop environment.
>
> All I want to do is set the Gedit left margin to 80 characters, so that
> text hard-wraps (or at least soft-wraps) at that point.
Don't you mean "right" instead of "left"? Or are you composing in
Hebrew?
> Currently, with the word-wrap setting in Gedit selected, and a visual
> representation of a margin showing at column 80, text will sail right on by
> the bogus margin at 80 characters, not wrapping until it reaches the left
> edge of the display.
A hands-on experimental session with Gedit has not revealed to this
correspondent the way forward here.
> After doing some research, it seems that it may not even be possible in
> Gedit to set a real, functional left margin to 80 characters.
All I could find was this:
https://ssplab.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/hard-word-wrapping-in-gedit/
> What?
Dumbfounding.
> Well, can it be done?
Hoop, meet jumper.
> And if not, (rhetorical question) why not?
>
Rhetorical. Gotcha.
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moi." Antonin Artaud
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