Thanks for the tip. I like the way code is displayed better with auto code wrap turned on in Firefox, Opera, and IE generally. It appears the soft hyphen handling does save some side-scrolling in IE, but for pathological cases it still happens there.

I'm not sure which method I'm going to use in the long run, but it's nice to have options. I might just raise my break limit on the non-auto to about where all my browsers on my main system will handle it maximized. It seems at the font size I use most of the time on the monitor and resolution I use most, I can easily get the browser into the 130-character range across all three of the most itneresting (to me) browsers. I've not run across many code sections with lines above that.

Thanks again for the tip.

In reply to Re^7: Those 'wide load' posts (browsers) by mr_mischief
in thread Those 'wide load' posts by talexb

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