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When using code files, you typically don't need longer lines to wrap around. However, with .md files this is in fact rather useful. However, I can't seem to find the option to enable word wrap so longer lines will be wrapped.
To reproduce, open Visual Studio Code resized to a small-enough window, and enter the following text in a new document:
This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum.
A linebreak before this.
The effect is this:
I'm trying to get the horizontal scrollbar to stay away, having line 1 wrap around at the right side of the window.
I've done a few things to answer my own question:
Search Stack Overflow: zero results at the time of writing this;
Meticulously going through the menu of Visual Studio Code: didn't find it;
Using the Command Palette with "wrap": gives no matching commands.
Perhaps it's not possible, and I'd need to file a feature request? Or am I missing something?
Note that I'd like to be able to turn it on and off quickly. For one, #PanagiotisKanavos mentioned in comments this solution to change wrapping behavior in the settings, but I'm looking for a quick command or menu option to do this (much like Notepad++ and Sublime Text 2 have).
Since v1.0 you can toggle word wrap:
with the new command editor.action.toggleWordWrap, or
from the View menu (*View** → Toggle Word Wrap), or
using the ALT+Z keyboard shortcut (for Mac: ⌥+Z).
It can also be controlled with the following settings:
editor.wordWrap
editor.wordWrapColumn
editor.wrappingIndent
Known issues:
renderLineHighlight should highlight the entire logical line
If you'd like these bugs fixed, please vote for them.
Go to menu File → Preferences → User Settings.
It will open up Default Settings and settings.json automatically. Just add the following in the settings.json file and save it. This will overwrite the default settings.
// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{ "editor.wrappingColumn": 0 }
wrappingColumn has been deprecated in favour of wordWrap.
Add this line to settings.json to set wordWrap on by default:
"editor.wordWrap": "on"
or open user settings:
Mac: ⌘ + ,
Windows: Ctrl + ,
Then search for "wordWrap" or scroll through the 'Commonly Used' settings to find it and select 'on'
Since version 0.3.0, wrapping has been put in the command palette. You can activate it with Toggle Word Wrap or Alt + Z.
Check out this screenshot (Toogle Word Wrap):
Go to the Preferences tab (menu File → Settings), and then search as “word wrap”. The following animated image is helpful too.
If you want to use text word wrap in your Visual Studio Code editor, you have to press button Alt + Z for text word wrap. Its word wrap is toggled between text wrap or unwrap.
Here you go with word-wrap on Visual Studio Code.
Since 1.9, it's possible to select a specific language for word wrap settings (or any settings). You can find this in the command palette under:
Preferences: Configure Language Specific Settings...
Which will take you to your "settings.json" for a selected language where you might include:
"[markdown]": {
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 100,
"editor.wordWrap": "wordWrapColumn"
},
I am not sure when it was added, but I'm using v0.10.8 and
Alt + Z is the keyboard shortcut for turning word wrap on and off. This satisfies the requirement of "able to turn it on and off quickly".
The setting does not persist after closing Visual Studio Code. To persist, you need to set it through Radha's answer of using the settings.json file...
// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{ "editor.wrappingColumn": 0 }
Word wrap settings redesign
Here are the new word wrap options:
editor.wordWrap: "off" - Lines will never wrap.
editor.wordWrap: "on" - Lines will wrap at viewport width.
editor.wordWrap: "wordWrapColumn" - Lines will wrap at the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
editor.wordWrap: "bounded"
Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport width and the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
press ctrl+ shift + p
Preferences open keyboard shortcut
search Toggle Wrap word
Set your preferences toggle wrap word
NOTES:
Works for version 1.55.2
Default one is alt+z
Explained here Language-specific editor settings but specifically:
Ctrl+Shift+P and type "Preferences: Configure Language Specific Settings"
Select the language or add section in the file (start typing "[" to see list of suggestions) or edit section as you like if already there.
If set it to bounded you might need to adjust the editor.wordWrapColumn value to wrap depending on the screen size. With bounded Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport and editor.wordWrapColumn
Example:
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 200,
"[markdown]": {
"editor.wordWrap": "on",
},
"[plaintext]": {
"editor.wordWrap": "bounded",
},
"[typescript]": {
"editor.tabSize": 2,
"editor.wordWrap": "off",
},
If it's not working in mac,
make sure to tell VScode that you are not using a screen reader. I had word wrap on and restarted VScode, and it gave me a notification window saying that if I'm in a screenreader, yes or no, and to note that word-wrap does not work in screen readers.
This is from the VS Code docs as of May 2020:
Here are the new word wrap options:
editor.wordWrap: "off" - Lines will never wrap.
editor.wordWrap: "on" - Lines will wrap at viewport width.
editor.wordWrap: "wordWrapColumn" - Lines will wrap at the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
editor.wordWrap: "bounded" - Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport width and the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
So for example, if you want to have the lines wrapped at the boundary of the window, you should:
Open settings.json (Hit CTRL+SHIFT+P and type "settings.json")
Put "editor.wordWrap": "bounded" in the json file, like this:
{
... ,
"editor.wordWrap": "bounded",
... ,
}
and then it should work.
Windows: Ctrl + Shift + press the key "P". Now on the command line, type Toggle Word Wrap and press Enter.
Mac: Command + Shift + press the key "P". Now in the command line, type Toggle Word Wrap and press Enter.
For Dart check "Line length" property in Settings.
Accessibility support is on by default and it will override your selected wrapper behavior.
So disable Accessibility Support first.
Then choose "on" for the Word Wrap option.
You don't need to go into settings.json to enable word wrap.
Picture of the accessibility support option
Mac: Code -> Preferences -> Settings -> Type wordwrap in Search settings -> Change Editor: Word Wrap from off to on.
Windows: File -> Preferences -> Settings -> Type wordwrap in Search settings -> Change Editor: Word Wrap from off to on.
Click on Settings in VS Code editor
Search for wordwrap
Select "on" for the Editor Word Wrap as shown in screenshot below
If you want a permanent solution for wordwrapping lines, go to menu File → Preference → Settings and change editor.wordWrap: "on". This will apply always.
However, we usually keep changing our preference to check code. So, I use the Alt + Z key to wrap written code of a file or you can go to menu View → Toggle Word Wrap. This applies whenever you want not always. And again Alt + Z to undo wordwrap (will show the full line in one line).
In version 1.52 and above go to File > Preferences > Settings > Text Editor > Diff Editor and change Word Wrap parameter as you wish
The language-specific example by #Riga is great. For a general setting, I would recommend the following:
"editor.wordWrap": "bounded",
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 90,
"editor.wrappingIndent": "same",
This wraps text if your viewport is smaller than the column limit (90 here) and uses the same indent when wrapping.
Step 1: Access to Dart extension settings
Step 2: Find Dart: Line Length, set it to 132 and then save settings
Step 3: Press Alt + Shit + F and you will see the lines are wrapping as configured.
I want VSCode line highlight to look like this
Currently, it looks like this
Basically I dont want VSCode to highlight the entire line.
Look at the options for this setting:
Editor: Render Line Highlight
options are none, gutter, line and all
You cannot just highlight the text part of the line. If that is what you want, look at the gutter option perhaps. If you just want to reduce the obviousness of the highlight, use #rioV8's answer - the last two digits in the hex are opacity.
add this to your settings.json (global or project)
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editor.lineHighlightBackground": "#00000000"
},
Set the line highlight to a transparent color
I have checked the Official Doc about theme settings, after trying too many times, I haven't made it. I want to change the text color(not background color, just the words color), which profile should I edit?
I have spended a few time and solved it. Edit your settings.json as below:
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"list.focusForeground": "#00ff00",
},
Replace the color(hex) as what you want, the example code color #00ff00 is green.
BTW, how I get this settings:
Toggle developer tools(In vscode dropmenu of help)
Try to find div where you want change, and get the color, for example (#eeffff)
command + shift + p, and input Generate Color ... will show Generate Color Theme From Current Settings, select it would open a new file with full color configs.
copy all colors json code block to settings file which match key of workbench.colorCustomizations
search #eeffff and try to find relative key, if not sure, change color and try to see the color in your code.
find out list.focusForeground is right. And keep this settings, remove other.
It might spend less or more time, but it works.
In the image below I'm actually in "rename" and I'm highlighting something but there's no highlight. You'll notice there's no cursor as well because it's highlighting. This is driving me a bit bonkers because I'm either counting how many left/right arrow keys I'm moving and such to know where I am. I tried the following colors but none of these seem to do anything (in the Explorer):
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editorRuler.foreground": "#fc199a22",
"editor.selectionBackground": "#ab3beb3f",
"editor.selectionHighlightBackground": "#136460e3",
"editor.findMatchBackground": "#00cc44a8",
"editor.findMatchHighlightBackground": "#d0ff004d",
"scrollbarSlider.background": "#FC199A2c"
},
I tried inspecting the element in the developer console in VS Code but the rename closes when it blurs out of the field which I need to do to select the element to know what the CSS class is to style it.
I didn't see a "rename" or highlight color for the explorer here either: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/theme-color#editor-colors
Any help would be super appreciated.
You can use the following property:
"selection.background" : "#FF0"
The background color of text selections in the workbench (e.g. for input fields or text areas). Note that this does not apply to selections within the editor.
A caveat to this approach is that it is applied globally, not just the explorer view
When using code files, you typically don't need longer lines to wrap around. However, with .md files this is in fact rather useful. However, I can't seem to find the option to enable word wrap so longer lines will be wrapped.
To reproduce, open Visual Studio Code resized to a small-enough window, and enter the following text in a new document:
This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum. This is my test lorem ipsum.
A linebreak before this.
The effect is this:
I'm trying to get the horizontal scrollbar to stay away, having line 1 wrap around at the right side of the window.
I've done a few things to answer my own question:
Search Stack Overflow: zero results at the time of writing this;
Meticulously going through the menu of Visual Studio Code: didn't find it;
Using the Command Palette with "wrap": gives no matching commands.
Perhaps it's not possible, and I'd need to file a feature request? Or am I missing something?
Note that I'd like to be able to turn it on and off quickly. For one, #PanagiotisKanavos mentioned in comments this solution to change wrapping behavior in the settings, but I'm looking for a quick command or menu option to do this (much like Notepad++ and Sublime Text 2 have).
Since v1.0 you can toggle word wrap:
with the new command editor.action.toggleWordWrap, or
from the View menu (*View** → Toggle Word Wrap), or
using the ALT+Z keyboard shortcut (for Mac: ⌥+Z).
It can also be controlled with the following settings:
editor.wordWrap
editor.wordWrapColumn
editor.wrappingIndent
Known issues:
renderLineHighlight should highlight the entire logical line
If you'd like these bugs fixed, please vote for them.
Go to menu File → Preferences → User Settings.
It will open up Default Settings and settings.json automatically. Just add the following in the settings.json file and save it. This will overwrite the default settings.
// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{ "editor.wrappingColumn": 0 }
wrappingColumn has been deprecated in favour of wordWrap.
Add this line to settings.json to set wordWrap on by default:
"editor.wordWrap": "on"
or open user settings:
Mac: ⌘ + ,
Windows: Ctrl + ,
Then search for "wordWrap" or scroll through the 'Commonly Used' settings to find it and select 'on'
Since version 0.3.0, wrapping has been put in the command palette. You can activate it with Toggle Word Wrap or Alt + Z.
Check out this screenshot (Toogle Word Wrap):
Go to the Preferences tab (menu File → Settings), and then search as “word wrap”. The following animated image is helpful too.
If you want to use text word wrap in your Visual Studio Code editor, you have to press button Alt + Z for text word wrap. Its word wrap is toggled between text wrap or unwrap.
Here you go with word-wrap on Visual Studio Code.
Since 1.9, it's possible to select a specific language for word wrap settings (or any settings). You can find this in the command palette under:
Preferences: Configure Language Specific Settings...
Which will take you to your "settings.json" for a selected language where you might include:
"[markdown]": {
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 100,
"editor.wordWrap": "wordWrapColumn"
},
I am not sure when it was added, but I'm using v0.10.8 and
Alt + Z is the keyboard shortcut for turning word wrap on and off. This satisfies the requirement of "able to turn it on and off quickly".
The setting does not persist after closing Visual Studio Code. To persist, you need to set it through Radha's answer of using the settings.json file...
// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{ "editor.wrappingColumn": 0 }
Word wrap settings redesign
Here are the new word wrap options:
editor.wordWrap: "off" - Lines will never wrap.
editor.wordWrap: "on" - Lines will wrap at viewport width.
editor.wordWrap: "wordWrapColumn" - Lines will wrap at the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
editor.wordWrap: "bounded"
Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport width and the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
press ctrl+ shift + p
Preferences open keyboard shortcut
search Toggle Wrap word
Set your preferences toggle wrap word
NOTES:
Works for version 1.55.2
Default one is alt+z
Explained here Language-specific editor settings but specifically:
Ctrl+Shift+P and type "Preferences: Configure Language Specific Settings"
Select the language or add section in the file (start typing "[" to see list of suggestions) or edit section as you like if already there.
If set it to bounded you might need to adjust the editor.wordWrapColumn value to wrap depending on the screen size. With bounded Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport and editor.wordWrapColumn
Example:
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 200,
"[markdown]": {
"editor.wordWrap": "on",
},
"[plaintext]": {
"editor.wordWrap": "bounded",
},
"[typescript]": {
"editor.tabSize": 2,
"editor.wordWrap": "off",
},
If it's not working in mac,
make sure to tell VScode that you are not using a screen reader. I had word wrap on and restarted VScode, and it gave me a notification window saying that if I'm in a screenreader, yes or no, and to note that word-wrap does not work in screen readers.
This is from the VS Code docs as of May 2020:
Here are the new word wrap options:
editor.wordWrap: "off" - Lines will never wrap.
editor.wordWrap: "on" - Lines will wrap at viewport width.
editor.wordWrap: "wordWrapColumn" - Lines will wrap at the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
editor.wordWrap: "bounded" - Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport width and the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
So for example, if you want to have the lines wrapped at the boundary of the window, you should:
Open settings.json (Hit CTRL+SHIFT+P and type "settings.json")
Put "editor.wordWrap": "bounded" in the json file, like this:
{
... ,
"editor.wordWrap": "bounded",
... ,
}
and then it should work.
Windows: Ctrl + Shift + press the key "P". Now on the command line, type Toggle Word Wrap and press Enter.
Mac: Command + Shift + press the key "P". Now in the command line, type Toggle Word Wrap and press Enter.
For Dart check "Line length" property in Settings.
Accessibility support is on by default and it will override your selected wrapper behavior.
So disable Accessibility Support first.
Then choose "on" for the Word Wrap option.
You don't need to go into settings.json to enable word wrap.
Picture of the accessibility support option
Mac: Code -> Preferences -> Settings -> Type wordwrap in Search settings -> Change Editor: Word Wrap from off to on.
Windows: File -> Preferences -> Settings -> Type wordwrap in Search settings -> Change Editor: Word Wrap from off to on.
Click on Settings in VS Code editor
Search for wordwrap
Select "on" for the Editor Word Wrap as shown in screenshot below
If you want a permanent solution for wordwrapping lines, go to menu File → Preference → Settings and change editor.wordWrap: "on". This will apply always.
However, we usually keep changing our preference to check code. So, I use the Alt + Z key to wrap written code of a file or you can go to menu View → Toggle Word Wrap. This applies whenever you want not always. And again Alt + Z to undo wordwrap (will show the full line in one line).
In version 1.52 and above go to File > Preferences > Settings > Text Editor > Diff Editor and change Word Wrap parameter as you wish
The language-specific example by #Riga is great. For a general setting, I would recommend the following:
"editor.wordWrap": "bounded",
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 90,
"editor.wrappingIndent": "same",
This wraps text if your viewport is smaller than the column limit (90 here) and uses the same indent when wrapping.
Step 1: Access to Dart extension settings
Step 2: Find Dart: Line Length, set it to 132 and then save settings
Step 3: Press Alt + Shit + F and you will see the lines are wrapping as configured.