[CLOSED] URL formatting when wrapping lines can be better

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Issue by redmunds
Sunday Sep 09, 2012 at 20:17 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#1604

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This issue was split from #1565. This applies to the Quick Open list, Find in Files Results, any error dialog that displays a URL, and maybe more places.

When displaying URLs, the default way that they wrap is terrible. Basically, lines are only broken on hyphens and spaces. Possible solutions:

(a) breaking on any character using this technique: http://perishablepress.com/wrapping-content/

(b) make it break on path separators (but still not break on any/all chars) which might be relatively easy if we can just inject "zero-width space" chars or some such in the display string... e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2046530/whats-the-opposite-of-a-nbsp

(c) some form of smart truncation (some native apps preserve the start & end of the path, but replace the middle with ellipses).

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Comment by pthiess
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012 at 16:37 GMT

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Reviewed -@redmunds - Randy this may be a starter bug, please review.

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Comment by redmunds
Wednesday Sep 12, 2012 at 16:54 GMT

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Yes, I agree that this would make a good starter bug.

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Comment by JakeStoeffler
Saturday Oct 06, 2012 at 07:58 GMT

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@redmunds@pthiess - I'm new to Brackets and I'm considering taking this one. Solutions (a) and (b) seemed simple so I gave them a shot. Here's what the Quick Open list looks like with solution (a) and solution (b). Option (c) is going to be a bit trickier, but personally I prefer to see the whole file path so I'm thinking (a) or (b) might be better. What do you guys think?

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Comment by redmunds
Saturday Oct 06, 2012 at 19:37 GMT

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@jakestoeffler - Thanks for taking this on!@pthiess,@peterflynn, and I all prefer option (b). Please submit a pull request.

I'd also like to note that there are other places in the UI where we'd also like to have this functionality. For example, edit a file, then close it without saving, and you'll get a dialog about the unsaved changes with the full url to the file displayed in that dialog. So, try to make the solution as generic as possible.

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Comment by redmunds
Sunday Oct 07, 2012 at 23:19 GMT

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Fixed. Closing.