On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:13:27 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"Gene Wirchenko" wrote

| 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.

I don't think most people make such a sharp distinction.

Older versions of WordStar did. It was very useful.

And Notepad++ includes a number of extra functions that
are "word processor functions", such as auto-indenting

Auto-indenting is highly useful for some programming languages.

and color syntax highlighting. Those are also not typical
text editor functions. The only functional distinction between

Colour syntax is also used by many programmers.

[snip]

Personally I would put a code editor in a different
category from a word processor or plain text editor.
It benefits from RichEdit functionality but people will
generally want to save the result as plain text. For
instance, an HTML file won't work in RTF format, but for
writing it, RTF text allows one to see color syntax
highlighting. So it needs to work graphically as a
word processor but functionally as a plain text editor.

You hardly need to use RTF to have syntax-colouring.

There really isn't any reason to make a sharp distinction
between word processing and a plain Edit window, unless
all you've ever known are Wordpad and Notepad.

I have mentioned WordStar.

[snip]

Can Libre Office do that? I have no idea. Maybe. I don't
want to drag out such a behemoth just to adjust
line returns in plain text. That's a job for a text editor.

A word processor actually.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko