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Bug 87617

Summary: Line wrapping mode in text editors
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Georg Lenz <georg.lenz>
Component: TextAssignee: Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
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Visual Studio in "line wrapping mode" none

Description Georg Lenz CLA 2005-03-10 03:07:30 EST
Line wrapping mode.
It would be nice if a line wrapping mode would exist for any text editor.
By that I mean that a line that extends over the width of a text editor window is
wrapped around instead of adding a horizontal scrollbar.
Similar modes exist in Visual Studio and even in Emacs 
(probably due to the missing scrollbars at that time).
The wrapping is then indicated by u-turn arrows at the side of the widget. 
So even the feature is kind of retro it has its benefits and its lovers.
Comment 1 Georg Lenz CLA 2005-03-10 03:35:23 EST
Created attachment 18637 [details]
Visual Studio in "line wrapping mode"

A picture describing how an text editor in line wraping mode looks like
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2005-03-10 04:33:30 EST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35779 ***