Hi,

I'm having trouble figuring out how to make the text system not break words that begin with a '/', such as paths, when wrapping. Let's say that we're laying out the following line of text:

=====================================
Normally, you should never delete /Applications
=====================================

I want '/Applications' to stay intact when wrapping. By default, the text system wraps it the following way:

=====================================
Normally, you should never delete /
Applications
=====================================

I'd like it to look like this:

=====================================
Normally, you should never delete
/Applications
=====================================

After much searching, the best solution I've come up with so far is a subclass of NSATSTypesetter with the following method implementation in it:

- (BOOL)shouldBreakLineByWordBeforeCharacterAtIndex: (NSUInteger)charIndex
{
        NSString *string = [[[self layoutManager] textStorage] string];

        if (charIndex >= 1) {
                NSTextStorage *ts = [[self layoutManager] textStorage];
if ([ts attribute:PFPathAttributeName atIndex:charIndex effectiveRange:NULL]) {
                        // Only break if the previous character is not part of 
the path
return [ts attribute:PFPathAttributeName atIndex:charIndex-1 effectiveRange:NULL] == nil;
                }
        }

        return YES;
}

I am setting the attribute PFPathAttributeName to the text storage to mark the path. This works somewhat, but now the problem is that after wrapping, the text looks like this:

=====================================
Normally, you should never
delete /Applications
=====================================

This happens because -shouldBreakLineByWordBeforeCharacterAtIndex: never gets called for the '/' and the next time it gets called is for the 'd' in 'delete'.

This modified wrapping behavior makes it seem like 'delete / Applications' is one word. I think it's better than the default behavior but still not ideal.

So how can I make it wrap exactly the way I want?

- Andy Kim

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