Chris wrote:
Frank Slootweg wrote:
Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:50:16 -0700, Franklin wrote:

[snip]

For my use of a text editor, I need the capability to reformat
paragraphs - lines to a specified column length. One would think that
is a basic text editor function... missing from Notepad++.

Well, no, it is not. It is a word processor function.

Semantics. There's no one-size-fits-all definition of either 'text
editor' or 'word processor'.

Sure there is. If you want to print (or at least printable) a text based
document, then you'd write and format it in a word processor.

Sorry, but I have to disagree (that there's a one-size-fits-all
definition ...).

Text editors have no concept of pages, margins, etc. Hence why printing
them is very hit and miss.

Then - according to you - Notepad is a 'word processor'?

From Notepad's Help:

"Notepad is a handy application when you want to view or make simple
edits to text files (usually with a .txt extension)."

[And a few more mentions of 'text'.]

Edits text? Most people would call that a text editor.

And - other than for wrapping and for replacements - Notepad hardly
understands the concept of 'word'(s), but it's still a 'word processor'?

In fact, if such an reorganisation of some text happened to a
text file of mine, I might well be rather irritated.

I'm sure Franklin meant reformatting during composition, not during
output/rendering.

Obviously that's for him to clarify, but I'd read it mean reformatting
*for* outputting.

In the part you snipped, I explained that I used vim, i.e. a 'text
editor', to reformat the paragraphs of my posting to a specified line
length.

That is indeed done for outputting - namely *viewing* (for reading) -,
but not for *printing* (i.e. no (paper) margins, pages, etc.).

I hope this shows that the definitions of 'text editor' and 'word
processor' are not cut and dry.