Wrap code in comments

[fregante]

GitHub is inconsistent. Code wraps in PR/commit diffs, but not in comments:

PR (wraps)

Review comment (no wrap)

Code block in comment (no wrap)

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[notlmn]

GitHub is inconsistent. Code wraps in PR/commit diffs, but not in comments:

To be frank, it is. They do not wrap content if the code is shown in unified view (like code comments in a PR "conversation" view, example), but wrap content in the split view (example).

Because not wrapping content in the split view would cause a lot of problems, impossible actually, because both the left and right parts of the diff are contained in a single tr element, making it impossible to isolate scrollbars for left and right diff views.

Even if you did "unwrap" the lines, then there would be scrollbar for each line in the diff.

Wrapped code (in split diff view, even for comments)

Non wrapped code (in unified diff view, even for comments)

[sindresorhus]

making it impossible to isolate scrollbars for left and right diff views.

Not impossible. Just difficult.

[sindresorhus]

I so want this. I hate not having soft-wrapping everywhere.

[sindresorhus]

@bfred-it Did you send a feature request to GitHub?

[fregante]

@bfred-it Did you send a feature request to GitHub?

I didn't

[notlmn]

making it impossible to isolate scrollbars for left and right diff views.

Not impossible. Just difficult.

Yup, it's difficult. But is it worth it? (That was about unwrapping code in split view anyway, not related to this issue)

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I so want this. I hate not having soft-wrapping everywhere.

Wrapping of code in unified diffs?

[sindresorhus]

Yes, but I’d be happy to have just the code in comments wrapped.

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[jerone]

I've been using the "GitHub Toggle Code Wrap" UserScript for long time now: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18789-github-toggle-code-wrap

It will add an button to switch code wrapping.

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