mcedit - wordwrap

[James Freer]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, tooth pik wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:26:49AM +0100, James Freer wrote:
>> I've just started using mc. I was wondering if mcedit does soft
>> wordwrap or just hard line wordwrap. It does paragraph formatting
>> like nano and pico do but not from what I can see is softwrap.
>
>> When I say softwrap I mean like emac's 'visual line mode' (Vim does
>> aswell but can't remember the command).
>
> do you mean
>
>    :set textwidth=72
>
> and
>
>    :set wrap
>
> those commands?

No... in vim I remember it now it's :set linebreak and leaves the textwidth as 
default.

>> The GUI editors e.g. Leafpad, gedit, kate all do. I wanted to use
>> mcedit as a prose text editor and so want to 'wrap' entire paragraphs.
>
> IMHO you can't do better than vim, and it integrates seamlessly with mc

Thing is I don't really want all the tweaks and 101 options - both emacs and 
vim are excellent editors but 'heavy' for me as a non IT geek. But I do like 
the console and was switching to mc and hoped mcedit might be what I was hoping 
for. Vim has an irritating @ at the end of file and I find the keybindings 
awkward.

Of all the 1001 editors there does not seem to be a console editor capable of 
softwrap. I was hoping mcedit was just what I was looking for.

thanks
james