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Komodo Edit from www.activestate.com has a nice feature called "Reflow paragraph". PSPad editor from www.pspad.com also has it, but it is called "Block format > Reformat". It works as follows: 1) you can set in Preferences how many characters will span vertical line which indicates a column marker (eg. 80 characters) 2) then you can select a section of code, click "Reflow paragraph" and that section will be reflowed so that it fits within vertical line. This feature is really handy when you edit html: there are quite often cases when you should deal with chunks of text which are not divided into lines and are hardly manageable without dividing them into lines. Dividing larger chunks of text into lines manually is tedious and Reflow paragraph functionality is a great help in such situations.
this is rather an enhancement than a defect but thanks for nice idea anyway
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If I'm not wrong, this feature request is not implemented yet in latest developement build available today (netbeans-trunk-nightly-201607100002-php-windows-x64.exe).