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In article <14SEP199216050129@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673) writes:
>In article <15429@umd5.umd.edu>, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams) writes...
>>Oh BBEdit experts:  is there some way to get BBEdit to wrap text
>>automatically, that is, as I type it in?  Right now I get everything on
>>one looong line, which makes it quite dffclt to read.  Or am I just
>>supposed to type carriage returns, like on a typewriter?  I'm afraid
>>I've gotten too used to  Microsoft WORD, and old habits die hard.
>
>The latest version of BBEdit, 2.1.3, has a wrap feature.  You set it in 
>Preferences, from the File menu. You can set for the Philip bar, the window 
>width, or a fixed number of characters.  (Question:  what's a Philip bar?)

But that still doesn't type as you wrap, you have to manually invoke
the wrap, which is very intrusive.

Fortunately, there is a little program out now, archived at sumex as

/info-mac/util/word-wrap-patch.hqx

that patches BBEdit to do as-you-type word-wrapping. It's not the most
elaborate implementation, but it infinitely better than nothing.



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