IDLE won't wrap lines of text

[Richard D. Moores]

Vista
Python 3.1.3

I can't figure out how to get IDLE to wrap text pasted in from, say, a
newspaper article. Usually, a each paragraph will appear as one long
unwrapped line, with no way to read the whole line, because no
horizontal bar is created. I haven't found anything about this in
either the options or the help.

Thanks,

Dick Moores

[Terry Reedy]

The IDLE editor was designed for writing Python code, not general text.
It is expected that you will limit line lengths to what can be seen on
your screen.

--
Terry Jan Reedy

[Rhodri James]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:56:45 -0000, Richard D. Moores <rdmo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

I hate to ask, but why are you doing this? IDLE isn't a general-purpose
editor, it's a programming editor specifically for Python, and as such
it's entirely appropriate for it to discourage overly long lines.

--
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses

[Richard D. Moores]

Take a look at <http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/EmyQTaYt>

Dick Moores

[Rhodri James]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:41:12 -0000, Richard D. Moores <rdmo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 16:31, Rhodri James
> <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:56:45 -0000, Richard D. Moores
>> <rdmo...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Vista
>>> Python 3.1.3
>>>
>>> I can't figure out how to get IDLE to wrap text pasted in from, say, a
>>> newspaper article. Usually, a each paragraph will appear as one long
>>> unwrapped line, with no way to read the whole line, because no
>>> horizontal bar is created. I haven't found anything about this in
>>> either the options or the help.
>>
>> I hate to ask, but why are you doing this? IDLE isn't a general-purpose
>> editor, it's a programming editor specifically for Python, and as such
>> it's
>> entirely appropriate for it to discourage overly long lines.
>
> Take a look at <http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/EmyQTaYt>

I see. I'd recommend the approach of sticking your source data in a
separate text file (using a text editor rather than IDLE) in any case;
it's much less of a pain to change what you are working on that way.

[Richard D. Moores]

Problem is I know of no text editor that can handle Japanese.

Thanks,

Dick

[André Roberge]

The editor in Crunchy (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy) appears to be working just fine with the sample code you posted (at least when using Python 3 - I got an error when using it to run the code with Python 2). That being said, I would not recommend it for heavy work....

An editor that seems to work just fine (although it took a long time to load the sample code) is SublimeText (http://www.sublimetext.com/) - version 2 alpha; it is becoming my editor of choice.

André

[Duncan Booth]

André Roberge <andre....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, February 20, 2011 10:51:38 PM UTC-4, Dick Moores wrote:
>> Problem is I know of no text editor that can handle Japanese.
>>
>

> The editor in Crunchy (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy) appears to be
> working just fine with the sample code you posted (at least when using
> Python 3 - I got an error when using it to run the code with Python
> 2). That being said, I would not recommend it for heavy work....
>
> An editor that seems to work just fine (although it took a long time
> to load the sample code) is SublimeText (http://www.sublimetext.com/)
> - version 2 alpha; it is becoming my editor of choice.
>

FWIW, Lugaru Epsilon (http://lugaru.com/) seems to handle it just fine
though you do have to set it to use a fixed pitch font which has Japanese
glyphs (MS Mincho was the only suitable font on my system but would suck
for general editing).

--
Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com

[kwame.asa...@gmail.com]

i think i understand the question... see when u doing django and u have use the views.py to respond to request in html form,,, its hard to wrap the html codes in idle..

[kwame.asa...@gmail.com]

i think i understand the question... see when u doing django and u have use the views.py to respond to request in html form,,, its hard to wrap the html codes in idle..

On Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:54:36 PM UTC, Terry Reedy wrote: