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Old June 22nd 18, 05:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Chris
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Default Reading an .ini file with Notepad using Windows 10

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.

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



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.

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