That was also one of the most common mistakes I had after publishing articles through WordPress – linebreaks were always in places where they should not be.Īfter enough time spent doing this pointless work, fixing many wrong break lines, I have decided to end it and figure out how to speed up the process. When I then copied my articles to other word processors in my pipelines, such as Microsoft Word or Grammarly, I always needed painfully deleted every single break line to make a single continuous line of text. As expected, I was using IntelliJ Idea IDE for coding, mostly Java, and thus the text was supposed to be wrapped automatically after 120 characters. However, what I have found very tedious was text formatting in IntelliJ. Article versioning is a feature that is available only in very advanced mode in cloud SaaS. You can easily version your articles’ state and keep a history of your edits in one place. Overall, IntelliJ IDE comes in all versions with Git support, which is an additional advantage against traditional word processors. Plus, when implementing the advantage of multiple IntelliJ shortcuts, the word processing is swift. So writing in English in IDE was never easier than now. Why turn IntelliJ Idea IDE into your word processor?įirst of all, IntelliJ Idea IDE already comes in its 2020 version with very, very good support for English vocabulary. But what it is possible to automatize are redundant tasks during text handling and editing. The creative process is not possible to automatize. Since I am also aiming to work on several articles or documents simultaneously, every decrease in ambiguity and complexity counts towards faster results. It is a better choice to use IDE instead of switching to another text editor or using another means of word processing. Therefore it is a chance for me to write a lot of content in the IDE. IDE is in front of me opened all the time. I’ll still have to deal with this for files in other directories, but this will cover 90% of my use cases.I have recently started to use IntelliJ Idea as my text editor and integrated it into my creative process.Īs I am a software developer, IntelliJ IDE is, for me, a must. Now, if I ever forget to enable soft-wrap as a language-specific setting in BBEdit on a new machine, this file will override the global setting and enable soft-wrapping. # Soft-wrap every markdown file (in BBEdit only) editorconfig file in the root directory of the files for this blog, that only contains one key: # EditorConfig is awesome: While soft-wrap settings aren’t part of the core properties, BBEdit has defined BBEdit-specific keys, including x-soft-wrap-text, x-soft-wrap-mode, and x-soft-wrap-limit.īased on this, I created an. EditorConfig files are used to enforce consistent configurations across editors for a given project, and they’re fairly widely supported. The BBEdit support team replied to me on Twitter, and offered a solution I was completely unfamiliar with:īBEdit has its own keys for Soft Wrap Text and other options that you can use: - BBEdit February 19, 2018Īpparently, BBEdit natively supports EditorConfig files. The system does not support relocation of the core preferences data file ( ~/Library/Preferences/), so you won’t be able to synchronize preference settings. Maybe I’d just end up with conflicted copy files from Dropbox, but BBEdit’s release notes specifically call this out as unsupported: I haven’t tried this, and I’m afraid of what might happen if I were to have BBEdit open on both computers at the same time. If you know where the settings you want to synchronise are stored, simply copy that file(s) to where you want them on Dropbox, and symlink it/them? It would be easier still if the preference would replied on Micro.blog with an interesting idea: It would be easy to recreate on both of my computers. Yes, this is a trivial problem it’s one checkbox in BBEdit’s Preferences Pane. My main need for this is in editing the text files that drive this blog 1. Specifically, I wanted to sync my soft-wrap settings for Markdown files. I wish there was a way to sync language-specific settings for BBEdit via Dropbox. Yesterday, I lamented the limitations of BBEdit’s Dropbox sync:
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