"editor.wordWrap": true is not working in VScode 1.9.0

[heyyoyo]

• VSCode Version: 1.9.0
• OS Version: Windows 7

Steps to Reproduce:
1- ALT+Z to toggle Word wrapping
2- I could see the property "editor.wordWrap" in my user settings
3- But not effect at all

It was working in previous version of VS code

[jrunestone]

Yup! Me too. I'm using "editor.wrappingColumn": -1 at the moment to disable word wrapping. It's squiggly and it's not telling me why, but it works.

[mjbvz]

Closing as a duplicate of #19842

@alexandrudima's comment explains the new behavior

[Olanrewaju]

As at VSCode 1.10.1
To turn on wordwrap use
"editor.wordWrap": "on",

Full options:
//Controls how lines should wrap. Can be:
// - 'off' (disable wrapping),
// - 'on' (viewport wrapping),
// - 'wordWrapColumn' (wrap at editor.wordWrapColumn) or
// - 'bounded' (wrap at minimum of viewport and editor.wordWrapColumn).
"editor.wordWrap": "off",

[eric-leitzel]

Thanks for your comment @Olanrewaju. I can see there is a lot action between the community and the developers on this issue.

I'm on VSCode 1.10.2 and I cannot turn off word wrap now. I can make it toggle for a short period of time then it seems to get stuck. Right now I have "editor.wordWrap": "off" but it is wrapping at the viewport.

Toggle Word Wrap (Alt+Z) was working for a few minutes. After going back and forth from file to file I noticed it would be turned on after I set it toggled it off. That is when I noticed the toggle no longer works. The setting for editor.wordWrap acting as if it were on, but it is set to off.

Any ideas?

[alexdima]

@eric-leitzel You might be running into #21801 -- for files of odd shapes (where more than half of the text in a file is on lines longer than 1k chars). The Insiders Channel Build contains a workaround.