How can I prevent line wrapping and instead allow horizontal scrolling in Gedit?

Question

I am writing long lines of data to a text file using Python. But when I open the text file using gedit, I don't find that the lines that I wrote are displayed into one line each (i.e every line from the data that I wrote is divided into one or more lines in the file as shown in the photo).

What I want is to be able to scroll horizontally with gedit so that the lines that I write will be displayed in one line each.
Is it possible to scroll horizontally in gedit?

Try holding Shift and scrolling. That's how horizontal scrolling works in most modern apps — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Dec 21 '18 at 11:28
@SergiyKolodyazhnyy The scroll bar doesn't appear until you turn off Text Wrapping. Please see my answer below. Thanks :) — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Dec 21 '18 at 12:23

WinEunuuchs2Unix · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-21T11:36:47.130

On the window bottom of gedit click on the Line number / Column number section:

Uncheck the Text wrapping option and a horizontal scroll box will then appear. Lines will no longer be wrapped.

If you want the setting to be permanent change your preferences. Use: Edit => Preverences => View => Enable text wrapping:

You can't access preferences if you are using sudo -H gedit though. You need to do this with regular user using gedit only. Then you can have sudo inherit your user preferences with a script such as this: How can I sync my root gedit with my user gedit's preferences?

How can I prevent line wrapping and instead allow horizontal scrolling in Gedit?

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