                 // change the displayed text.
                 _text = text;
                 
-                // FIXME (cframpto): if content, should the paragraph terminators be
-                // left in the string so the displayAsPassword string has the
+                // FIXME (cframpto): if content, should the paragraph terminators 
+                // be left in the string so the displayAsPassword string has the
                 // same form as the original string?  This is only an issue
                 // for TextArea.
                 var textToDisplay:String = StringUtil.repeat(

            // Once we have a TextFlow, we can export its plain text.
            _text = staticPlainTextExporter.export(
                _textFlow, ConversionType.STRING_TYPE) as String;
            // Remove the trailing paragraph terminator.
            _text = _text.substring(0, _text.length - 1);
        }

        return _text;

    	if (debug)
     		trace("editingMode = ", value);

     	_textContainerManager.editingMode = value;
    }

