How do you enable word-wrap by default in Eclipse?

Asked 20/9, 2016 at 14:37 Answered 24/3, 2021 at 10:36

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Simple question: how do you enable word-wrap by default in Eclipse? I looked at this plugin but it only goes up to Luna. In addition, this plugin is a separate text editor and does not have syntax highlighting or validation. I'm open to other suggestions.

Aronarondel answered 20/9, 2016 at 14:37 Comment(0)

Word wrap is available in Eclipse Neon IDE: https://www.eclipse.org/neon/noteworthy/#_word_wrap_in_text_editors.

Just consider using the latest version.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+Y

Or button:

Or menu Window > Editor > Toggle Word Wrap:

Aguie answered 20/9, 2016 at 14:42 Comment(6)

But as default it is disabled. When I enable it and open new file, it is disabled again. – Verbenaceous 3/10, 2017 at 21:43

Indeed. Please consider creating an enhancement request (via bugs.eclipse.org ) to suggest the setting to be global and propagated to all editors. – Aguie 4/10, 2017 at 5:28

The shortcut Alt + Shift + Y works in S32 Design studio based on the eclipse framework. – Vibrate 14/8, 2018 at 6:22

I don't see this in Mars.2 Release (4.5.2) – Aeronaut 30/9, 2021 at 11:5

Mars 2 is seriously outdated; it's been release more than 6 years ago, and 16 major release took place since then. You won't ever get more support for it. Just drop it and use latest release. – Aguie 30/9, 2021 at 15:33

Using STS 4, word wrap isn't listed in menus but Alt-Shift-Y works. – Torrential 7/8, 2023 at 14:37

As pointed out by @KrisWebDev in this answer, Eclipse supports soft line/word wrapping as of Eclipse Neon but the GUI to control this setting does not exist yet. There should be a global settings to enable soft word wrapping by default in any text editor in Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Enable Wordwrap and it is not there.

Instead, you have to manually edit the org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs file (.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs) in your eclipse workspace. There, you can add the settings wordwrap.enabled=true.

Reg answered 16/12, 2016 at 8:12 Comment(11)

on windows installations, the file is in the workspace at <workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs – Finicking 12/5, 2017 at 3:12

The GUI is still not there as of Eclipse Oxygen :-/ – Reg 31/7, 2017 at 8:5

Note that the option is not there intentionally until bug 484142 gets resolved - in short, in order to avoid potential persisting slowness, every newly editor has got the word wrap feature turned off as a workaround for now. – Callipygian 16/8, 2017 at 9:0

Thanks for the notice about the bug, I added my vote on it. – Reg 16/8, 2017 at 12:35

@EmmanuelGuiton This setting enables word wrap for code editors. How to permanently enable word wrap for console logs? – Answer 22/8, 2017 at 9:33

@Answer I do not know if there is an option for that. – Reg 28/8, 2017 at 12:33

@Answer by the way : this is another topic, you should open a new question for that. – Reg 22/9, 2017 at 8:50

It worked for Oxygen as of Nov 07, 2017. After adding the value in the org.eclipse.ui‌.editors.prefs file lines were wrapped. – Yean 7/11, 2017 at 9:14

@Answer You can set the preferences for Run/Debug Console to a fixed width like 120 characters. It doesn't break at word boundaries, though, it just prints exactly 120 characters and continues on the next line. – Sp 20/3, 2020 at 2:21

my org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs file gets overwritten at restart. I'm using the 2021-03 edition of Eclipse – Singlecross 15/5, 2021 at 16:41

I don't see this in Mars.2 Release (4.5.2) – Aeronaut 30/9, 2021 at 11:5

For windows this worked for me(change workspace6 if not works), open settings file

%APPDATA%\DBeaverData\workspace6\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings\org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs

add

wordwrap.enabled=true

Logogriph answered 24/3, 2021 at 10:36 Comment(0)

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