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Line wrap
Submitted by Naturo on Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 - 16:00
Sorry to bother, I have searched the JEdit help and the forum but haven't find any answer to the following issue:

When the wrap option is set, a long line is wrapped as expected if and only if it contains spaces.
If the typed line does not contain space characters (i.e. the line is a single and very long token) then it is not wrapped (i.e. it is necessary to use the horizontal scroller to see the tail of the line). Cheching and editing such a line without visual wrapping is awkward when the line is very long, e.g. the value of a PATH variable in a .chsrc file.

Is there any way to wrap the lines even if they don't contain spaces?

Thanks for your help!

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To wrap lines without spaces, use a regex replace
by Graham Hannington on Thu, 06/09/2012 - 03:50
Five years after the original question, I have just had the same issue with a data URI, where the src attribute of an HTML img element contains image data as a base64-encoded string (a single line of nearly 10,000 characters with no spaces).

I need the lines in the HTML file to be limited to 80 characters.

I used "Replace All" with the following search and replace strings (and with the "Regular expressions" option selected):

Search for:
(.{78})
Replace with:
$1\n

The regular expression search string selects a block of 78 characters. The replace string replaces that block with the same block followed by a line break. "Replace All" performs this replacement for each successive block of 78 characters.

hmm...
by AlexCory on Thu, 26/04/2007 - 15:40
not that I know of...
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