Word wrap in gedit

Question

I am using gedit & I have a very huge line and I am not able to see that complete line because gedit gets stucking.
so, I wanted to do word wrapping in gedit.
I searched but I didnt found word wrap option in gedit.

How I can do wrapping in gedit?

Nitroglycerin

Answer 1

Check Gedit preferences, or else you can use TextWrap

Endomorph

Preferences -> Tab. View -> Text Wrapping -> Enable text wrapping -> check – Capsicum

Answer 2

In the gedit Text Editor menu click Edit, and then click Preferences. A popup named gedit Preferences opens up. In the same popup on the first Tab named View, under the sub-heading Text Wrapping click the check box named Enable text wrapping, to toggle the text wrap feature on or off.

These steps have been tested for gedit 3.10.4 version running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Agentive

Answer 3

Check in the status menu in the lower bottom corner of the Gedit window.

If you want to do it in a as per-file basis, you can use modelines https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/gedit-plugins-modelines.html.en.

For example have a comment in the first line of your text file. In this case, autowrap:nil will suppress text wrapping.

// -*-indent-tabs-mode:t;c-basic-offset:4;tab-width:4;autowrap:nil;-*-

Tapley

Answer 4

For Ubuntu 22.04:

1. Open Preferences by Clicking on the hamburger menu on the top-right.
2. Click on the View tab
3. Under the Text wrapping section >> Check 'Enable text wrapping' >> Uncheck 'Do not split words over two lines'.

Dendrite

Answer 5

The most complete list of Gedit plugins I know of can be found at wiki.gnome.org. It includes a.o. the Text Wrap plugin.

[To install it,] you need to download the files and put them in your ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/ directory (which may need to be created). They need to be in that exact directory; subdirectories are not scanned for plugins. [copied from that page]

Selffulfillment