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.
And Notepad++ includes a number of extra functions that
are "word processor functions", such as auto-indenting
and color syntax highlighting. Those are also not typical
text editor functions.

Disagree. Those two functions are crucial features for writing code, which
is a major function of text editors.

I struggle to understand what you'd use syntax highlighting for in a word
processor?

The only functional distinction between
the two is that a plain text editor does not provide font
properties -- bold/italic/colors/faces -- pasting images,
or anything else that's not plain text. Formatting line
length can be done in plain text.

Printing. Word processors are designed for printing. You *can* print from a
text editor, but you have to know how many columns will fit on the page.
That number is printer and page size/orientation specific.

There are also converters to aid printing from ASCII text files and they
ignore any formatting you may have enforced on the text.