How can I switch word wrap on and off in Visual Studio Code?

How can I switch word wrap on and off in Visual Studio Code?

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:

  1. renderLineHighlight should highlight the entire logical line

If youd like these bugs fixed, please vote for them.

Go to menu FilePreferencesUser 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 }

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How can I switch word wrap on and off in Visual Studio Code?

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

enter

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