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Automatic Line Break

If the input of text comprises several lines it is useful when the editor completes a filled line and starts a new one all by itself. Thus you may concentrate yourself fully to the text to be entered. Starting with version 02 of exaEdit this is the default behaviour of the editor. Default are lines with the maximum length LWWIDTH. LWWIDTH is the visible data width in the data zone, for example 73 with an editor window of 80 columns and a number area of 6 digits.

As soon as 73 characters are entered exaEdit searches from left to right for the first group of blanks and adds all characters before that group to the first input line which is entered at once. All characters after that group are put at the start of the next input line which will be continued with the characters entered thereafter. You may control the indenting with the command

It specifies if automatic line break should occur or not. Furthermore you can specify if the line break column should be at the end of the visible line as described or if it should have a fixed value. More details on the syntax you can find in the corresponding part of the section The Commands in Detail.
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