Re: How to set Gedit left margin to 80 characters
On Tuesday 28 January 2020 19:57:02 Default User wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 12:18 Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me
> > sépare de
> > moi." Antonin Artaud
>
> Gene, thank you for your review of Gedit, and your mention of Geany -
> it looks interesting (although it too seems to lack the margin setting
> capability).
Look for "word wrap" in its copious pulldowns. Its there someplace.
>
> Curt, yes I really did mean right margin, not left. I never could tell
> my right from my left. Thank you for the link you provided. That too
> looks interesting. I will try it tomorrow.
>
> BTW, there is LibreOffice Writer, which does have the margin setting
> capability, but is really overkill for many (most?) uses.
>
> And of course there is Emacs, which can do anything. Which I have been
> meaning to learn, as soon as I win the lottery and thus have nothing
> else to do for the next 10 years. The lottery money will also be
> needed to pay for medical care for the resultant carpal tunnel
> syndrome.
By golly, he's got it! :)
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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