Use Emacs style hard wrapping.

[kaushikcfd]

• Checks for line breaks with every Space keystroke.
• Special treatment for lists, blockquotes, tables.

[kaushikcfd]

@inducer: I have added a checkbox for hard wrapping as one of the preferences (off by default).

[inducer]

I just played with this. This is great! I'd be happy to deploy, I just would like the C-\ shortcut back. :)

[inducer]

Deployed.

[kaushikcfd]

Thanks 🎉

[inducer]

Encountered something about this that isn't ideal: Some lines are just naturally long, e.g. links with long URLs. This change mercilessly butchers those, which left me confused and with no option but to turn it off in the middle of a meeting (and some document wreckage to clean up).

[kaushikcfd]

Just an update: This needs a feature on hardwrap.js side. See this discussion. Working on it.

[inducer]

If you continue working on this: Could you bring the C-\ shortcut back? (Despite its flaws, I've found myself wanting it back. One particular thing it offers is the ability to re-wrap a whole paragraph, which AFAIK isn't available now.)

[kaushikcfd]

PR for fixing the wrapping long lines: codemirror/codemirror5#6338.

I agree wrapping a selection is a necessary feature. I also find myself hitting g-q in vim quite often. I'll try to revert the change (I would first like to see if a better implementation is simple-ish enough).

Also for the keybinding we could move to something like:

1. Alt-Shift-w in the Sublime mode.
2. g-q in the Vim mode
3. Alt-q in the Emacs mode.

Wdyt?

[inducer]

PR for fixing the wrapping long lines: codemirror/codemirror5#6338.

That's pretty cool. :)

Wdyt?

Totally agree with these. The only reason for C-\ is that I was lazy and picked something random.