Does Eclipse have line-wrap

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I m editing an XML file with the Eclipse IDE and need to input paragraphs of text  It doesn t seem that eclipse has a line-wrap feature though  Anyone knows if it does or if there s a plugin for that

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In Eclipse v4 7  Oxygen    Window menu   Editor   Toggle Word Wrap  Shift Alt Y

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Ahti Kitsik s plugin is mentioned above  but there s a newer plugin by another author that works with newer versions of Eclipse  up to Juno  at least   and also fixed the line numbering issue in the older plugin         Full installation instructions are at Eclipse version to download the word wrap plug-in

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Update 2016  As mentioned by ralfstx s answer  Eclipse 4 6 M4 Neon  or more  has a word-wrap feature   Nov 2015  for release mid 2016   In any editor view  type   Alt Shift Y     Sadik confirms in the comments it works with Eclipse 2019-09      By default  text editors are opened with word wrap disabled    This can be changed with the Enable word wrap when opening an editor option on the General  gt  Editors  gt  Text Editors preference page     Manually toggle word wrap by clicking in the editor window and pressing  Shift Alt Y   On Mac OS X  press  Cmd-Opt-Y    Updated May 2017   The famous bug 35779 is finally closed by r   c 61972  last November     There are however a few new bugs    481873  No line ruler number repaint on text editing with disabled  quick diff   484142   Word Wrap makes some actions very slow  488162    word wrap  Hide WW preference to avoid unexpected performance impact       As long as we are unable to provide acceptable editor performance for big files after toggling editor word wrap state on  we should make sure users can t set WW preference 1 always on by default and wonder why the editors are slow during resizing zooming     2020  MarcGuay adds in the comments      If you want the wrapping to be persistent automatic  the cdhq plugin seems to still work with the 2019-03 version of Eclipse    After installing you can turn it on via Window- gt Preferences- gt Word Wrap       Update 2014  The de cdhq eclipse wordwrap  Word-Wrap Eclipse plug-in just got updated  and does provide good wrapping  as illustrated in the project page       Original answer May 2010  Try the Eclipse Word-Wrap Plug-In here    Just for the record  while Eclipse Colorer might bring wrapping for xml files  Eclipse has not in general a soft wrapping feature for Text editor      Soft and hard  Soft will just warp the text at the right window border without adding new line numbers  so there are gaps in the list of numbers when you enable them     This is one of the most upvoted bugs in Eclipse history  bug 35779  9 years and counting  200  votes   Update February 2013   That bug references an old Word wrap plugin  but Oak mentions in his answer  upvoted  a new plugin for recent  Juno   versions of Eclipse  so 3 8 x  4 x  may have been seen working with 3 7  That plugin is from Florian We  ling  who just updated it  March 2013   Right click in an opened file and select  Toggle Word Wrap   shortcut ctrl alt e

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Word wrap comes out of the box with Juno now  Right Click on the editor and select the  Word Wrap  option from the dropdown

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As mentioned in the post by VonC on this same page  Eclipse now has this capability as of 06 2016 Neon   Try this plugin Eclipse platform plugin  It looks like eclipse only has the ability to do it manually on its own and here are the commands  At that point you must reformat the highlighted text manually   It s not terribly obvious how to control Eclipse line width and line wrapping in your Java source files  Here s how and where   Comment width and line wrapping is set in Preferences- gt Java- gt Code Style- gt Formatter  then click on the Edit button and select the Comments tab  I like Line Width for Comments to be 120     Code line wrapping is set nearby  in Preferences- gt Java- gt Code Style-  gt Formatter  then click on the Edit button and select the Line Wrapping tab  I like a line width of 120 and indent size of 4     Indentation is set separately  in Preferences- gt Java- gt Code Style-  gt Formatter  then click on the Edit button and select the Indentation tab  I like an indent size of 4  consistent with the Line Wrapping indent setting     As if that s not enough  you can also set printer margins  tab size  etc  in Preferences gt General gt Editors gt Text Editors where I set the Displayed Tab Width to 4 and Print Margin Column to 120 or more      You can also check the Show Print Margin box to get a faint vertical line at the printer margin column

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Eclipse Neon  4 6   release date June 2016  includes word wrap for text editors  It s disabled by default  and can be activated and deactivated using the key shortcut Alt Shift Y  on Mac OS  Cmd-Opt-Y   Some editors also supply a tool bar button for activating word wrap   See the 4 6 M4 New and Noteworthy

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In Version  2019-12  4 14 0  on MAC  Go to Windows -  Editor -  Toggle Word Wrap

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Try AhtiK Eclipse WordWrap  it works for me  http   www ahtik com eclipse-update

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From Bug 35779 - Comment 187      A workaround  that I use for the last years now  is to use the eclipse wiki markup editor for editing text files  This supports word wrap  and this is enough for me  Maybe this information could be of help to some of you

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The Eclipse Word-Wrap plugin works for any type of file for me

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Ctrl Shift F will format a file in Eclipse  breaking long lines into multiple lines and nicely word-wrapping comments   You can also highlight just a section of text and format that   I realize this is not an automatic soft hard word wrap like the other answers  but I don t think the question was asking for anything fancy

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First alpha of eclipse word wrap released   Got this answer from this post  How can I get word wrap to work in Eclipse PDT for PHP files

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