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From: Susan Calvin <s.calvin@usr.invalid>
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Subject: Re: This is cute.
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 09:43:02 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 07 May 2011 04:26:11 -0400, Lew wrote:

> On 05/07/2011 03:23 AM, Susan Calvin wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 May 2011 20:07:17 -0700, markspace wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/6/2011 7:30 PM, Susan Calvin wrote:
>>>> http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/
>>>>
>>>> Tucked down near the bottom:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> General
>>>> *   Word wrap in Editor
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It took until VERSION SEVEN to add this?! :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Probably wasn't seen as needed.  The *code* would always wrap; they're
>>> referring I think to just plain text, or maybe auto-formatting
>>> comments.
>>>    Either way, my personal use of that feature would be limited.
>>
>> Hate to tell you this, but the code doesn't wrap, or at least it didn't
>> as of NB 6.7. Fortunately I mostly use Eclipse. :)
> 
> I hate to tell you this, but the code DOES wrap in the NetBeans editor,
> at least since NB 3.  Sometimes you have to hit the Alt-Shift-F keychord
> to format the source is all.  Fortunately it works the same as Eclipse. 
> :-(

Eh what? You can manually reformat source, but it doesn't seem to break 
long lines when you do so, and if you go typing past the little red line 
it just keeps going, scrolling horizontally.

Besides, why would they put "Word Wrap in Editor" in a new-features list 
for version 7.0 if that feature wasn't actually new with that version?