"View: Toggle Word Wrap" isn't working

[dewdad]

Issue Type: Bug

Load a large text file and try to toggle word wrap

VS Code version: Code 1.23.1 (d0182c3, 2018-05-10T17:11:17.614Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.16299

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7600U CPU @ 2.80GHz (4 x 2904)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on native_gpu_memory_buffers: disabled_software rasterization: disabled_software video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vpx_decode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Memory (System)	15.85GB (4.08GB free)
Process Argv	C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe
Screen Reader	no
VM	50%

Extensions (8)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
npm-intellisense	chr	1.3.0
gitlens	eam	8.3.2
vscode-npm-script	eg2	0.3.4
code-runner	for	0.9.3
jsonnet	hep	0.1.0
beautify	Hoo	1.3.0
output-colorizer	IBM	0.1.2
Kotlin	mat	1.6.0

[vscodebot]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• "Toggle Word Wrap" does nothing for diff editor (#11387)
• Word wrap can't toggle from off to wordWrapColumn/bounded (#38303)
• Word wrap resets to default value when saving or renaming file (#33840)
• Word wrap settings are forgotten when switching tabs for untitled files (#30360)
• Word Wrap doesn't work in compare view (#10572)

[alexdima]

Duplicate of #44206

Starting with the next stable release, a message will be provided when a large file is opened which will allow to forcefully enable that word wrapping works even for large files: