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[gmcsdobbie]

I have a large amount of data that I am copying from a text document into the code editor. When I copy it, it just appears as one long line of text and half of what I copied is missing as one line can only be so long. How do I copy the text with formatting?

[Mike.Dailly]

There is no line wrap in the code editor. Code should never auto-wrap as it can easily confuse things and introduce bugs.

And if there was one....I'd take it out

[gmcsdobbie]

There is no line wrap in the code editor. Code should never auto-wrap as it can easily confuse things and introduce bugs.

And if there was one....I'd take it out

Personally, I would say that one giant long line of text is far more confusing than a neat indented program.

[Mike.Dailly]

Splitting a line of text yourself where it makes sense to do so is fine! But having automatic "word wrap" is a terrible idea in code!

[Jobo]

Personally, I would say that one giant long line of text is far more confusing than a neat indented program.

When you write your code, will you ever write an entire script out in 1 line?
If you will, I suggest you start watching some programming tutorials.

Pasting into a document is a far different thing.
As Mike said, split it yourself.

Word-wrap = software specific, not a "global" concept.

[gmcsdobbie]

Personally, I would say that one giant long line of text is far more confusing than a neat indented program.

When you write your code, will you ever write an entire script out in 1 line?
If you will, I suggest you start watching some programming tutorials.

Pasting into a document is a far different thing.
As Mike said, split it yourself.

Word-wrap = software specific, not a "global" concept.

That is strange because sometimes I have copied large amounts from notepad into the code editor and the formatting is retained, but mostly it is not.

[Jobo]

That is strange because sometimes I have copied large amounts from notepad into the code editor and the formatting is retained, but mostly it is not.

That's because that piece of text had been manually formatted.
When it works: manually formatted.
When it fails: word-wrap.

[icuurd12b42]

I think people may have misread the problem.

Do you have code that originally was formatted and you paste and it is not formatted anymore? Loosing all the line breaks that was there?

It happens some times.

What I do is use Notepad++ (google and go get it) and paste it there. then I tell notepad++ to "menu/Format/Convert to Windows Format". re-copy and paste in GM....

[gmcsdobbie]

I think people may have misread the problem.

Do you have code that originally was formatted and you paste and it is not formatted anymore? Loosing all the line breaks that was there?

It happens some times.

What I do is use Notepad++ (google and go get it) and paste it there. then I tell notepad++ to "menu/Format/Convert to Windows Format". re-copy and paste in GM....

Thanks very much. That will be a fine replacement to Notepad.