What I need is a hybrid of a plain text area and the more complicated editor. I am filling comment fields in a database that can only hold plain text, so the editor needs to edit only plain text, but still have spellchecking, undo, etc. etc. and, also when I manipulate the contents to remove extraneous linefeeds and extra spaces witha cleanup command, get the cleaned up value back inthe content area and show the corrected plain text with the new 'formatting' which is only line feeds, spaces, tabs etc. Word wrap should be soft unless the user actually enters Ctl-enter or whatever.
So it looks like plain text with blank lines between, sometimes... example:
safasdfsdafsdf
asdfsdafsdafsdafdsf
asdfdfasdfdsf asdfdfaf sadffdfafa
asfdafafasd
asdf
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