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New Eclipse Word Wrap plugin adds keyboard shortcut

March 8, 2011 by Ahti Kitsik

Had a few spare minutes yesterday to move the eclipse word wrap plugin from sourceforge to github.

While on it also added keyboard shortcut so you can switch on-off the wrapping using Ctrl+Alt+W (M1,M3+W in “Eclipse Language”).

Eclipse Word Wrap

Trust me, it’s a useful plugin : )

Latest version can be installed from the update site: http://ahtik.com/eclipse-update/

Word Wrap project site

Thanks to the shortcut I’m not even waiting anymore to have it fixed in the very deep core of the Eclipse platform as the changes would be massive and simply switching it off before launching a debugger is good enough for now.

  • Jspx Support

    Great plugin, I had been using since long time. however there is a small enhancement. every time I open a file I had to set the word wrap for it. is there a way to remember these settings at least as long as eclipse is running (no need to persist settings on file system)

  • http://profiles.google.com/zacharyfolk Zachary Folk

    This works great.  Thank you! Before,  I was tempted to go back to Notepad ++ just because I missed wrap so much.  Why isnt this just a default setting in aptana I wonder ?  Hopefully they include this in future releases..

  • FrustratedUsr

    Does not work at all.
    looked in all menus.
    What are the requirements for this to work?

  • Placidia

    Thank you for this plug-in. I use Eclipse for composing documents in LaTeX (using R and Sweave). Without a word wrap feature, writing text in Eclipse would have been very annoying! This is great. 

  • Okohurgo

    Thank you for the great work.

    I’ve noticed a bug. This plugin does the wrapping quite neatly but it has an issue with the line numbers. (Yes, I’m used to work with line numbers.) An example is the easiest to show:

    23  Line 23, multiline 1
    24  Still line 23, multiline 2
    25  Still line 23, multiline 3
    26  Still line 23, multiline 4
    27  —An empty line, line 24—
          Lorem ipsum, line 25
          —Another empty line, line 26—
          [My cursor is here]etc etc etc, line 27

    Line number 24 stands for the first empty line, but it stays in the beginning of line 23.2
    Line number 25 stands for the “lorem ipsum” line, but it stays in the beginning of line 23.3
    Line number 26 stands for the second empty line, but it stays in the beginning of line 23.4

    So, my point is understood, I think. Line number 27 must stand next to my cursor, but it is up there.

  • Nataliya Oprysko

    Thanks a lot! It’s very useful.
    But it would be very fine, if you will fix the bug with line numbers.

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