Synedit with word wrap?

[Martin_fr]

If you questions was, what features I think are missing. / If not ask again:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/User:Martin#SynEdit
List is not exclusive, ideas welcome.
Currently not going to happen: Multi-font.
Currently not going to happen: see through background, eg.g for image in background. (unless TWincontrol gets that.)

At the moment I am stretched for time.... But when I get back to it.

As for the code design. I have been trying to make things more modular. But that is still in progress.

[typo]

What do you mean by "currently not going to happen"? This means that you are "against" these?

Well, I can see WordWrap on your list. Maybe center paragraph, align at left and right and justified could be added. Maybe multi-font too.

[Martin_fr]

"Currently not ..."

Different font (sizes) would be a fundamental change to SynEdit.

SynEdit is meant as an editor, not word processor. It is optimized for this.
Adding those feature is likely (not necessarily, but likely) having huge performance impact. In that case it may be that the decision goes for 2 branches, keeping the editor, and creating a text processor.

But I may be wrong, that is to be seen if an actual implementation surfaces.



left right center....

Without line wrapping, I only see a point to have the entire text left or right. That would also be good for RTL text)

With wrap, the wrapper can influence how the text is shown.

[typo]

The open source RichEdit does not exist yet?

[BigChimp]

AFAIK not one that is cross platform and suitable for inclusion into Lazarus. There are - IIRC - various richedit controls available that do work with Lazarus. Edit: see e.g. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/RichMemo

[typo]

Yes, RichMemo seems to be good. I use it. I use SynEdit only for an algorithmic editor, indeed.