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Softwrap is unclear and awkward #42

Open michaelbjames opened 1 year ago

michaelbjames commented 1 year ago

The softwraping of text gets weird. See the colon on a new line on its own. The user did not write a newline character, the line is just too long.

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The issues are that:

  1. It's not clear text will get wrapped.
  2. Text that gets wrapped is indented, leaving a user confused and trying to delete that indentation.

The fix is:

  1. Add a ruler at the wrap line
  2. Wrapped text should be aligned on the left, not to the text that caused the wrapping.

Related, I think the column width should be 100 or 120, instead of 80. We're not on punchcards and users have wider screens.

rlisahuang commented 1 year ago

I'm onboard with increasing it up to maybe 100. Still note that we do have participants using the tool on a 14inch (or even 13) screen.