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'.

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.

When I have a natural language document to work with, I might
well appreciate such a function. I definitely want the modes to be
separated, as they were with early WordStar.

'vim - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor'

That 'text editor' *can* "reformat paragraphs - lines to a specified
column length", but it only *does* so, if and when you *tell* it to.

So I hope that you don't mind that my 'text editor', reformatted the
above paragraphs to a specified line length! :-) I'm sure it would throw
a tantrum when I would have the audacity to call it a 'word processor'.