>> Most IDEs are rather weak as text editors compared to emacsen. That's true, but even emacs and xemacs don't offer simple automatic word wrap (i.e. wrap a line without splitting words or putting an eol or hard carriage return at the end of every line). I don't know if vim allows this. It's something writers just take for granted in non-Unix text editors.
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