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Gedit does not wrap around the right margin

Bug #329500 reported by muzh
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Bug Description

Hi,

I would like Gedit to doing word wrap automatically when the cursor reaches the right margin.
Currently I have to expicitly press the enter key when the cursor comes close to the right margin.

M

Tags: bionic focal
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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

What version of gedit are you using? If you go to Edit --> Preferences --> View; do you find any settings regarding word wrapping?

Changed in gedit:
status: New → Incomplete
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muzh (syed-muzammil-hussain) wrote : Re: [Bug 329500] Re: Gedit does not wrap around the right margin

Hi,

This is Gedit 2.24.2.
Yes I do find 2 settings for Test Wrapping : For enabling Word Wrap
and for disabling splitting of long words.

Muzammil

2009/2/14 Andreas Olsson <email address hidden>:
> What version of gedit are you using? If you go to Edit --> Preferences
> --> View; do you find any settings regarding word wrapping?
>
> ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Gedit does not wrap around the right margin
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329500
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> of the bug.
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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote :

Guess I should also ask the question which I thought was implied :-) Does those two options do what you would expect them to?

If so, is it ok if I mark this bug as invalid?

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muzh (syed-muzammil-hussain) wrote :

Hi,

The two options do seem to do what they say they do - Make the right
margin visible and also disable splitting of long words during word
wraps.

However, in almost all text editors the right margin is actually a
boundary for the word wrap. Here in gedit it is just a visual boundary
- no wrapping takes place at the right margin.

M

2009/2/14 Andreas Olsson <email address hidden>:
> Guess I should also ask the question which I thought was implied :-)
> Does those two options do what you would expect them to?
>
> If so, is it ok if I mark this bug as invalid?
>
> --
> Gedit does not wrap around the right margin
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329500
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

There is a request for that on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572860

Changed in gedit:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Changed in gedit:
status: Unknown → New
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Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti) wrote :

To resume, I would call this feature "physical" or "hard" word wrap. Very useful sometime, and the basic reason to continue using tools like [x]jed, [x]emacs or vi[m]. Would be nice to have it in gedit.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143827.

Changed in gedit:
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in gedit:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

Does this still occur on Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" with gedit 3.30.2-0ubuntu0.18.10.2?

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
tags: added: intrepid
Paul White (paulw2u)
tags: added: bionic focal
removed: intrepid
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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