Hi,
Am 15.09.2011 um 08:18 schrieb amc:
> Thanks, Charlie, but I'm already soft-wrapping to window width. I'm
> looking for the effect that text editors like Writeoom offer, which
> means having the entire screen covered by the text editor window, but
> text constrained to a 600-700 pixel column in the middle of the
> screen.
If I understand you right you might be able to emulate most of the behavior in
BBEdit with the current version - if you could live with some tweaks to your
text. The basic idea is: Why not preceding every line of text with the same
amount of, let's say, 50 spaces to add a border of white space left of your
text and rely on BBEdit's Auto-indent feature. This feature will indent every
line with the same amount of white space as the current line thus simulating a
left border.
In Preferences > Editor Defaults: check Auto-indent and "Soft wrap text to" and
the Character width to something between 120 and 150 (find out what fits your
needs best).
In Preferences > Appearance you might want to remove visual clutter to create a
distraction free writing environment by unchecking Page guide, Line numbers and
Gutter.
Create a new document to see all changes (as existing documents may ignore
changed settings).
When you want to get rid of your "border space" just do a search/replace with
grep activated.
search
^ {50}
replace with
<nothing>
This will find exactly 50 spaces if they occur at the beginning of a line and
hence remove the indentation.
Likewise you can intend existing text documents by searching for
^
and replacing it with
{50}
(beware the white space before the bracket)
If you intend (what a pun) to use this often you may want to set up a Text
Factory and save it as a Text Filter - check out the manual for details.
You might also check out the "Shift left/right" commands from BBEdit's Text
Menu.
Hope, this helps
Roland
>
> On Sep 15, 12:49 pm, Charlie Garrison <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> On 14/09/11 at 6:44 PM -0700, amc <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I tend to use BBEdit for writing. Lion's full screen view is perfect
>>> for this, except that BBEdit's text wanders right across my 20"
>>> screen, making it very difficult to read as a writer. Using the
>>> existing text width settings don't work, either, because text gets
>>> squashed over to the left.
>>
>> You don't mention Soft Wrap so I'm guessing you missed that.
>> Turn on Soft Wrap and set the wrap settings to window width.
>>
>>> Any chance that we could get preferences to centre text when in full
>>> screen, and a slider to constrain text width to suit personal taste?
>>
>> If you really want to request that as a feature you need to send
>> to <[email protected]>. Personally I don't see that as a
>> solution to your problem though; you want to configure soft wrap
>> for your needs.
>>
>>> If you have a feature request or would like to report a
>>> problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than
>>> posting to the group.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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