hi, barry:
Ah - it's the difference between preferences for "creating a new file" and
prefernces for "opening an existing file" ... weird, but I guess "good" in
that BBEdit makes you think about what it's doing to existing formats.
kathy
At 3:59 PM -0800 3/27/99, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>>At 10:09 AM -0800 3/27/99, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>>
>>>Of course, if I create a new file in BBEdit v5.0 that is soft wrapped, save
>>>it, and then open it again in v5.0, it is soft wrapped. But I want all my
>>>existing files (which are soft wrapped in v4.0) to open as soft wrapped in
>>>5.0. How?
>>
>>File -> Preferences -> Editor
>>Click "soft wrap text"
>
>
>Kathy, that's not it. I did that, it did not solve the problem of BBEdit
>v5.0 opening existing files without wrapping (which open wrapped in v4.0
>where they were created).
>
>I sent a message to Bare Bones support, and amazingly, they answered on a
>Saturday. Here's what they said:
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Make sure that the option "Don't Wrap Source Files" is turned off. You will
>find this in the "Filing" section of the preferences. If this option is on,
>BBEdit will not open any source type files (such as HTML) with soft
>wrapping turned on.
>
>Christian Smith / Senior Technical Support Specialist
>--
>Bare Bones Software, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 http://www.barebones.com
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Now that's great tech support!
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