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Enhancement 746712: Text Editor Enhancements

Update Text editor with useful features

It would be nice if the text editor works like the one in Autocad!

We need an editor that acts more like a text real editor where we can type notes and paragraphs without needing to enter in hard returns.

We also need to be able to have columns of text in one string and have the column width actually be honored if a word it to long it wont break to another line and lets it go beyond the column width.  While we're at it, you need a Justify text alignment that adjusts line spacing so that the left and right columns are uniform.

You guys really need to update the text editor...your main competitor is years ahead in this space

Not to mention if your text editor contains too much text it gets super slow to the point its unusable (Defect 1065758)

  • Can you update it to allow for setting column widths.

    wrap text only works if there are spaces. wrap text needs to work like Microsoft word does. if you set a width and there are no spaces then it needs to force the text to wrap so that it doesn't go beyond that width.

  • I have found "Enhancement 746712: Text Editor Enhancements" which may cover what you are talking about here. Do you think this covers what you have brought up here? I can add extra detail to this Enhancement if needed.

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    Please add more functionality inside the word processor: 

    Add right-click context menu selections for

    1. Wrap text and remove the hard returns;
    2. Copy selected text without copying the formatting;
    3. Paste text from buffer without applying formatting from the source;
    4. Offer more Case change selections:  Sentence, Invert, ...

    Attempt to make the editor more robust like modern editors.

  • I agree a text editor similar to autocad's would be useful

  • Hear Hear.
    I am sure there are a significant number of requests of this ilk, so all supporters should seek out and upvote them all.

    Yes, gains have been made in CONNECT EDITION, but there are a significant number of bugs that ppl just get into the habit of working around, getting formatting to work properly is one bugbear, and conversions from existing TEXT to CE TEXT is fraught with failure, to the extent I actually export out to TXT file, and then PASTE in. Another Workaround.

  • I am aware and its okay but if there are no spaces it will not wrap and lets the line go beyond the "column distance" it should act like word if I set a wrap distance I expect nothin to go beyond that, which leads also not being able to have multiple columns.

    But this idea is really more of a call to update the text editor. its been long enough, autocad should not be so far ahead in functionality of a text editor and for so long.

    and yes im referring to connect.