How to configure Geany to wrap lines?

Question

When coding with Geany, I often have quite long lines. I want them to wrap automatically, so that I don`t have to scroll horizontally to see what I've written.

score 35 · Answer 1 · 2013-10-29T11:19:41.480

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Press Alt+D and then L to toggle line wrapping on or off.

Line wrapping off

Line wrapping off

Line wrapping on

Line wrapping on

edited Oct 29 '13 at 11:19

answered Oct 29 '13 at 11:09

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Is there any way to make geany wrap on the long line marker column, rather than at the edge of the doc? – Benubird Feb 28 '16 at 21:35
good, it is easy to toggle! would be better if there was a direct shorcut or even an icon. I use wrapping when reading some text, and no wrap when coding, thx! – VeganEye Nov 07 '20 at 21:00

score 23 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '13 at 01:16

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Go to Edit > Preferences. In the Preferences dialog, go to Editor > Features and then check the first checkbox (the one corresponding to "Line wrapping") :

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answered Jun 20 '13 at 01:16

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I activated that. But my lines are anyway about 4 to 5times my screen wide. – Paul Woitaschek Jun 20 '13 at 14:16
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This did not work for me, so I closed the file and re-opened it, and then it worked. – Erel Segal-Halevi Nov 13 '14 at 07:58
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Thanks. I also had to activate it in the "Document" menu. – Paul Jul 15 '20 at 18:18

score 17 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 15 '15 at 07:50

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Open the menu Document and check Line Wrapping which is the top-most entry in the menu.

edited Sep 15 '15 at 07:50

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answered Oct 24 '14 at 22:17

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This options works, but the Line wrapping option in Edit > Preferences > Editor does nothing. Weird. – dw1 Nov 30 '18 at 10:26
This works on UBNTU 16.04 lts, Geany 1.33. – EsmaeelE Dec 08 '18 at 08:21

Aleksandr Lancaster · Answer 4 · 2023-02-26T12:07:27.243

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There are three related parameters!

'Document', 'Line Wrapping' checkbox;
'Edit', 'Preferences', 'Editor', 'Features' tab, 'Line breaking column' numeric field;
'Edit', 'Preferences', 'Editor', 'Display' tab, 'Long line marker' section, 'Column' numeric field.

In the 'Long line marker' section, you can also set the type of the marker and it's color.

edited Feb 26 '23 at 12:07

answered Feb 26 '23 at 11:52

Aleksandr Lancaster

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Just to clarify: if set in 'Edit', 'Preferences', 'Editor', 'Features' tab, 'Line breaking column', then line breaking is automatically enabled on newly opened documents. If the document was opened before that option was set, then 'Document', 'Line Wrapping' is the way to go. – Clément Oct 08 '23 at 14:59

How to configure Geany to wrap lines?

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