Allow to customize word wrap for each language

[alefragnani]

It would be interesting to have the ability to define different word wrap values for different languages, specially if you use Code for editing normal programming languages like JavaScript, Pascal and non programming languages, like Markdown.

I tend to respect the word wrap values defined in the main IDE for a particular language (if exists/is used), and turn off word wrap for for Markdown/Log/Text files. But today, in Code I only have settings for the Editor (editor.wrappingColumn and editor.wrappingIndent).

Thanks in advance

[axefrog]

Agreed. This issue is also described in #6925.

[alexdima]

@bpasero @aeschli Any thoughts here? The editor API can handle this as it's all dynamic anyways, we would need something in the configuration service.

[bpasero]

Well, no further thinking has happening in this space. I think it boils down to finding a good syntax in our settings file so that you can express per language settings. We have not decided on a syntax to express this. Whatever we come up with also needs to support validation within, so it might be more tricky.

[jmm]

@bpasero @alexandrudima I'm really confused: aren't keys named {{language}}.something in the settings file expressing per language settings? Example:

JavaScript Configuration - Language specific settings

// Defines space handling after a comma delimiter
"javascript.format.insertSpaceAfterCommaDelimiter": true,

More specifically I saw an html.format.wrapLineLength prop in the default settings and tried to apply it to JS as javascript.format.wrapLineLength but it doesn't work. @nchammas also reported in #6925 that it doesn't even work for HTML.

// Maximum amount of characters per line (0 = disable).
"html.format.wrapLineLength": 120,

[bpasero]

That is true but we do not support this kind of configuration for other editor settings, hence this is a valid and still open feature request that needs thinking.

[micnic]

It there any progress in this direction?

[mjbvz]

Closing as a duplicate of #1587, which tracks a more general approach that would allow settings (including editor.wrappingColumn and editor.wrappingIndent) to be applied per language / file type.