Would prefer non-word-boundary line breaks in URLs

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Maarten

October 15, 2021 05:14

When a URL exceeds line-length, nvUltra applies line-breaking on word boundaries. The remaining part on the first line (before the break) is then full-adjusted by letter-spacing it. See example in attachment.

I hit this a fair bit and would prefer that URLs simply break where the line end is, not on word boundaries, to avoid this distracting formatting.

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  Fletcher Penney

  October 20, 2021 19:27

  From what I can tell, I think this is either set for the entire window, or possibly on a per-paragraph basis.  But I don't *think* it can be set for certain parts of paragraphs.  I'm not sure that this would be any better.

   

  If anyone else knows a way to do this differently in NSTextView's, I am open to hearing about it!

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  Fletcher Penney

  October 20, 2021 19:44

  I kept digging, and I think I found a way to do it without a significant performance hit with a custom NSTypeSetter.  I need to test it a bit more, but maybe it can be done!

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  Fletcher Penney

  October 20, 2021 19:49

  And to clarify, this will work when a URL is recognized as such by the syntax highlighter (e.g. `<foo>`), or with WikiLinks.  Basically anything that is clickable in the editor.

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