Warning: This post will probably be to wide, until the bug is fixed. That's on purpose, it is precisely what this post is about.

Looking at Re^2: Change readonly status of Win32::GUI::RichEdit, I was wondering why the article is so wide in Firefox. (It would seem to be rather normal in MSIE, but that is only because MSIE can wrap text where there is no whitespace, for example, right after a hyphen.) It's that first code snippet, over 160 characters long, that is to blame. It just doesn't wrap.

In case you don't see it like I do, here's a screenshot (for a few weeks, at least).

Apparently, code that doesn't contain a newline, doesn't wrap. See for yourself:

Inserting a newline anywhere in the code, allows the code wrapper to kick in:

Newline inserted at the front:

$mainform->tab->Page4->AddRichEdit(-name=>'articletext',-style=>WS_VIS
+IBLE|WS_VSCROLL,-multiline=>1,-text=>"",-width=>745,-height=>450,-lef
+t=>10,-top=>35,-readonly=>1);
[download]

Newline appended at the end:
$mainform->tab->Page4->AddRichEdit(-name=>'articletext',-style=>WS_VISIBLE|WS_VSCROLL,-multiline=>1,-text=>"",-width=>745,-height=>450,-left=>10,-top=>35,-readonly=>1);

Two lines of code with just a newline between them, but nowhere else:

$mainform->tab->Page4->AddRichEdit(-name=>'articletext',-style=>WS_VIS
+IBLE|WS_VSCROLL,-multiline=>1,-text=>"",-width=>745,-height=>450,-lef
+t=>10,-top=>35,-readonly=>1);
$mainform->tab->Page4->AddRichEdit(-name=>'articletext',-style=>WS_VIS
+IBLE|WS_VSCROLL,-multiline=>1,-text=>"",-width=>745,-height=>450,-lef
+t=>10,-top=>35,-readonly=>1);
[download]

Note that that is all I changed.

Update: Some people don't seem to get what I'm driving at. I think this is a bug. No node with code should ever act like that.

Update: In case your browser/user settings are vastly different than mine, here's a screenshot of this post, showing both what I find normal and not normal.

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