FWIW, that is exactly how I do it in Scratchpad: A per-document setting and it defaults to line wrapping for plain text, no line wrapping for everything else.
This is probably what you want in 99% of the cases and I find it very convenient. It will not work well for the 2 in 1000 users who regularly get plain text files which require no line wrapping, they will be forced to take the three seconds for toggling the option on each document. I'm not convinced that's a critical issue, but you could still have a global preference option for default line wrapping (e.g. "automatic", "always wrap" and "never wrap"). Maybe there is a magic solution that works even better, but I would not suggest to wait until it is found, because it might well not exist. As a side-note, this is somewhat similar to popup blocking in Epiphany: You can set the default in the preferences, but you can also toggle it via the menu on a per-site basis. Daniel _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
