[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: word wrapping in text editor

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/18/2009 6:11 AM, Damien wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> I am precisely trying to find how to do this. Have you found any
> solution since your last message ?
>
> Would anyone else know how to visually wrap lines of an eclipse text
> editor like in other text editors ?

It is an extremely complicated problem, not as simple as it might seem. 
There is a long-standing bug in Bugzilla that has pages of discussion, 
but I don't remember the bug number. Searching Bugzilla should find it: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs

Eric


> Lorenzo Bettini a écrit :
> > Jharsseph wrote:
> > > Maybe we can try with the styles, something like:
> > >
> > > Text foo_txt = new Text(parent, SWT.MULTI | SWT.WRAP);
> >
> > Actually I need this feature when editing simple text files; this
> > is quite a standard feature and other simple text editors do. Are
> > you talking about adding this feature to eclipse itself?
> >
> > Note that I'd need a feature to enable/disable visual word
> > wrapping...
> >
> > thanks Lorenzo