Good morning,
On 22/04/14 at 11:23 AM -0400, Lawrence San
<[email protected]> wrote:
By the way, why do so many coders prefer to keep soft wrapping off?
Personally, I would reverse that question; why do you prefer
soft wrapping on? (Yes, you've already answered it.)
My code lines are usually manually hard-wrapped anyway, but if soft
wrapping is disabled my block comments (and some other lines) tend to
get cut off by the edge of the window.
I would argue that's where the problem is. For "code" lines; I
use one of the formatter/tidier scripts to 'clean' the code,
which will also keep it under MAXCHAR line length.
For block comments, just run it through hard-wrap, then apply
'comment'. (I think there is also a version of wrapping that
takes into account comment characters.)
To actually answer your question, for me it is simply that I
will view/edit the code with tools other than BBEdit. Having
hardwrap is better than relying on current tool's implementation
of softwrap.
I'm guessing that there's some disadvantage to soft wrapping (in
addition to slower file opening) that I don't understand.
Lack of control. All coders I've known prefer to control line
breaks. Now, *where* to break the lines... that is certainly debated.
Charlie
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