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Dima Geller - 21/Dec/07 01:32 PM
We unfortunately cannot officially support word wrap at the moment. We'll look into adding the script as part of the default install, or make it easier for users to add their own scripts into a non-moveable spot.
Despite the official position on this, I have to say this bug is a dealbreaker for me and likely many other users.
I mean-- seriously. Notepad has word wrap. TextPad has word wrap. Heck, even the web-only text box I'm typing this in has word wrap. I'm amazed Aptana has the word of mouth it does considering it lacks such a basic feature of any text-editor. Yes; there are extraneous issues (with Eclipse). Yes; there is a workaround. But why is this even an issue? The provided workaround script (http://www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Toggling_word_wrap I'd love to use Aptana for web development, but it looks like I'll be patiently waiting for a fix, instead. Hi Troy,
We used to have a field to enable toggling this on and off, but it does have a significant amount of issues because of Eclipse architecture: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35779 Unfortunately, if we enable it, it works okay for some users, but we're concerned that the issues outweigh the benefits. We'd love to solve this. Suggestion are appreciated. Best, We are using Aptana in a class related to web site development (html, css mainly but some javascript too). Students were surprized when I announced we weren't going to use an application like Dreamweaver as in the previous years. We are now in the 5th week and they began to appreciate what Aptana is capable of and why it may be better to use an IDE like Aptana rather than an WYSIWYG editor. This feature (not having word wrap) was one of the few bad points scored by Aptana. Just wanted to give some feedback about the priority of this enhancement.
Thanks for the great work. No word wrap is a dealbreaker, showstopper, loss of sales, etc.
Make Eclipse fix their bug, please. This is a BASIC usabiiity issue...please fix it. Thank you, Tom Hey guys,
Just a friendly pitch in that this is also a big issue in our development studio. We've recently begun the transition from Dreamweaver CS 3 to Aptana. We're very happy with Aptana, but not having wordwrap has made a few things difficult. Having to load Dreamweaver to do simple HTML text editing isn't ideal. Keep up the great work guys. Jonathan Wold Just wanted to restate that this is a BIG ISSUE. Some development with HTML files gets practically impossible without a word wrap function. Every simple text editor is better in this regard.
What's the problem with word wrap? Because there must be a big problem here since this issue is still unresolved after so much time...
Why work on minor issues like you did and not solve this one as a priority? This is a deal breaker. Please tell the community what is the problem here. Hello,
There is a "soft" word wrap available, but it does not support correct colorization or folding which is why it is not available as a standard option. To solve it correctly would involve rewriting a large part of the Eclipse editor infrastructure. It is unfortunately a very difficult issue to solve correctly for Eclipse as referenced by the above ticket. There was a Google Summer of Code project dedicated to it and he was unable to make any progress. We unfortunately do not have the resources at this time to solve it ourselves, but will continue to ask for it to be addressed at Eclipse meetings and hope that it will be seen as an important issue for users. Alternately, if someone was interested in solving the issue and familiar with Eclipse, we would be happy to provide pointers as to where to begin and I think Eclipse would be interested in an outside contribution. Best, I have to say I know very little about the integration between Aptana and Eclipse, but is there any way to implement another editor, such as Notepad++? I agree with others that this really is a deal breaker. All of Aptana's other features are terrific, though it does tend to crash quite a bit, but word wrap is essential when editing PHP/HTML with long lines.
This really does need to be a priority for such an expensive product. As an alternate approach, would "hard" word wrap be an option? Either you would set some sort of maximum line length, and if you exceeded it, it would insert a carriage return and wrap to the next line?
Or, we update formatting to support line lengths and you would use Ctrl + Shift + F to format the text to a more pleasing presentation? Ingo, firstly, thanks for explaning the issue wrt Eclipse. At least for me, it helps to see the problem from a wider view.
As your suggestion for hard wrap, yes it would work for me. In fact, when thinking other editors I realized that most of them uses hard wrap and it never was a problem for me and probably I didn't notice the difference most of the time. Since we are dealing with tags in html, I think tags should be considered as a unit for the line breaking. I mean, if the max. number of characters is reached inside the tag , it wouldn't break at the next space (i.e. between two html property definitions) but wait for the tag to end first. Using formatting for hard wrap would also work for me. It may be even better if you can use it on the selected text. In general I produce my own formatting by putting the CR myself and long lines is not a problem but I need it when for instance having a paragraph of text at my html. With formatting I can select that long line, word wrap it and then carry on with the rest. i used to love Aptana until the "Word Wrap" issue.
something so simple is difficult. old version of Aptant v.2 is so slow. i want the version of Aptana before studio v1.1.4.. or 1.0. come on Team Aptana, you have to do better. this a deal breaker for me. June 2, 2008 I've been using Aptana since 1.0 and have been patiently waiting for someone there to actually use the Studio product on a production project so they will understand how ridiculous not having a word-wrap feature is for an editor. I will be dumping Aptana and moving all my 74 developers off it as well.
Figuring out word-wrap should be the number one priority out there. All the AJAX features are useless without word-wrap! I work on three 30 inch monitors and code jumps all over the place simply by cutting and pasting. If notepad can do it, you're telling me that there aren't any developers out there that can navigate Eclipse? Until this feature is implemented, I will recommend against using Aptana to any developers I come across... I am really surprised there are not more comments or votes about this. It is a serious issue. It is a free product and I am grateful so I will not complain but it would be great to see this feature added. Thanks.
Hi Fred,
We have made some progress on word wrap...Eclipse is unable to fix it, so we have had to go ahead ourselves. It's currently available for pro users in either the Studio 1.2 nightly updates, or by applying to the Cloud Early access program. To enable: Known issues: Please give it a try and let us know your feedback. I am really glad to hear this. Thank you, Ingo!
I would be happy to help beta-test the feature if needed. (disclaimer: I am not a Pro user) Anything to get Word Wrap into Aptana! Hi All,
Any feedback? We'd like to hear any comments about the beta version of this feature. Thanks, Ingo, I would love to try this out and give you feedback. I am just running into issues installing 1.2.
Okay. I got it installed. Turned on Word wrap and:
Hi Chad,
Can you give a screenshot of the preference page and also a screenshot of the editor? Also anything in your log file? The projects window is completely unrelated, but we'd be happy if you could repo that. Thanks, Here is screenshot of the editor with a file open.
Here is screenshot of preferences page. I assume you wanted the page that shows the wordwrap button.
Here is the editor with nothing open in it. It does show the project box issue though. It happened when I first opened the program.
I "enabled" word wrap at Preferences > Aptana > Editors : Advanced tab : Enable word wrap.
I then restarted Aptana, build: 1.2.1.020137, on Windows XP. I got the following error message: "Unable to read workbench state, workbench UI layout will be reset." I lost my layout settings and there is still no word wrap. This really needs a lot more attention. The lack of word wrap is the most annoying issue in Aptana, followed by the following ticket in a close second. Also, finding the word wrap option in preferences is rather difficult. Word wrap is not an "Advanced" feature. |
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Word wrap
