Re: Soft wrapping

From: Brendan Duddridge (brenda..lickspace.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 18:16:57 EDT

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    Well I already purchased TextMate, so I was hoping there was a
    solution using that. And a BBEdit license is $125 USD ($136.55 CAD).
    Just a bit too much for a text editor in my opinion. Even though it's
    a very good one.

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    On May 30, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

    > One caveat with the current version of BBEdit is that the Format
    > command lowercases all the tags, so the inline stuff like
    > <wo:ERXEqualConditional ... > gets rewritten as lowercase, so I
    > have only used the shortcuts like <wo:if ...> etc and for one or
    > two inline mixed case class name ones that I really, really wanted
    > (rare anyway), I make a lowercase shortcut alias to make sure I can
    > happily continue to clean up formatting using BBEdit. Other than
    > that, the BBEdit html format seems to be generic enough to handle
    > any tags thrown at it.... I like the resulting format.
    >
    > (Mike S., if you are interested in seeing how BBEdit reformats for
    > inspiration, the downloadable demo version lasts a month if you
    > don't have a copy already)
    >
    > Regarding being too expensive ...... sure, I hate paying for stuff,
    > especially if I am not going to use it every day or week, but for ~
    > $80 or whatever it is, I have definitely recouped my money's worth
    > in the time since I switched to WOLips.... and I like it for
    > editing bash scripts too, although the free TextWrangler from the
    > same company is nice too, but does not have the HTML format utility.
    >
    > Sth less than $50 is easy to justify, less than $100 is easy
    > too ......... it's the $500 stuff like JProfiler just chokes me to
    > open my wallet. Wish they would sell it for $99 or sth like that.
    >
    > Cheers, Kieran
    >
    > On May 30, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:
    >
    >> Hi Lachlan,
    >>
    >> I also use TextMate, but I can't get the HTML Tidy command to work
    >> at all if there are any WO tags in the HTML. Do you know if
    >> there's a new HTML Tidy plug-in that fixes this? Whenever I try,
    >> all my HTML disappears in the TextMate window. BBEdit is too
    >> expensive.
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >>
    >> ____________________________________________________________________
    >> Brendan Duddridge | CTO | 403-277-5591 x24 | brenda..lickspace.com
    >>
    >> ClickSpace Interactive Inc.
    >> Suite L100, 239 - 10th Ave. SE
    >> Calgary, AB T2G 0V9
    >>
    >> http://www.clickspace.com
    >>
    >> On May 29, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
    >>
    >>> On 30/05/2007, at 1:20 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> FWIW, as I work on projects that have components created long
    >>>> ago in WOBuilder, every time I need to edit a component that is
    >>>> not formatted legibly (for example long horizontal lines), I
    >>>> have found that using BBEdit to format it (takes about 20
    >>>> seconds) is worth the trouble. I basically have a BbEdit window
    >>>> always open with the HTML file type selected at bottom of the
    >>>> window. http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/demo.shtml
    >>>>
    >>>> Then in Eclipse I do a Cmd-A to select all the component HTML,
    >>>> paste into the BbEdit window, Cmd-A again to select all of what
    >>>> I just pasted in BBEdit, then select Markup/Utilities/Format
    >>>> menu, then Cmd-X to cut, then switch back to Eclipse (Cmd-tab),
    >>>> then paste Cmd-V. Now I have a nice hierarchially formatted html
    >>>> that is easier to work with.
    >>>
    >>> You might prefer doing this:
    >>> a) Preferences > General > File Associations > *.html
    >>> b) click Add... (Associated Editors)
    >>> c) click external programs, Browse... (I've chosen /usr/local/bin/
    >>> mate for TextMate)
    >>> d) click Default (optional)
    >>> e) if not default, right-click on file and select Open With >
    >>> 'editorOfChoice'.
    >>> g) if you save the file in the external program eclipse knows.
    >>>
    >>> That should save you a lot of copying/pasting.
    >>>
    >>>> Hopefully someday, we will have a format command in WOLips that
    >>>> will perform a similar style formatting.
    >>>
    >>> Sure.
    >>>
    >>>> On May 29, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> is there anything available that would toggle soft-wrapping the
    >>>>> html in the component editor?
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Currently I get no wrapping at all which is often fine but
    >>>>> there are times when I'd like to use a softwrap to save the
    >>>>> horizontal scrolling.
    >>>
    >>> with regards,
    >>> --
    >>>
    >>> Lachlan Deck
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >
    >





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