Hi! While I’m overall growing very fond of Sublime Text as a Windows TextMate/BBedit surrogate I’m using it heavily for editing (web)mail, especially from OTRS and I’m using alt+q a lot to fix up quoted text. Unfortunately that function doesn’t seem to let itself be restricted to the selected portion of the text only.
When I have something like
Lorem ipsum
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed lobortis est in orci varius egestas. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.lorem lorem …
I have to insert a blank line before and after the longer paragraph in order to restrict the reformatting to that (and of course remove the blank lines afterwards again).
If I don’t do that, even if I first select the lines I’d like to reformat them, alt+q will affect the whole quoted text, ie. instead of the desired result
Lorem ipsum
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed lobortis est in
orci varius egestas. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per
conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed lobortis est in orci varius egestas. Class
aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos
himenaeos. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed
lobortis est in orci varius egestas. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora
torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.lorem lorem …
I get
Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed
lobortis est in orci varius egestas. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora
torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Lorem ipsum dolor sit
amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed lobortis est in orci varius egestas.
Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per
inceptos himenaeos. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Sed lobortis est in orci varius egestas. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad
litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. lorem lorem …
Also sometimes a single word will “stick out” too far. The wrap margin is set to 78 and in the above (correct) example the line
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed lobortis est in
will look like
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed lobortis est
in
instead. Placing the cursor behind the word “in” will show column 79 …
Might this behavior be fixed/changed in a future release of Sublime Text?
Thanks in advance!