Enabling "wrap text" does not break lines at word boundary

[dajare]

Enabling the "wrap text" option does indeed wrap text at the window boundary, but it breaks lines AT the window boundary regardless of the character.

It would be preferable to have line breaks at spaces, of course, as this makes the text much more legible.

I suppose this is a request for something equivalent to vi(m)'s "set linebreak" option:

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27linebreak%27

Thanks!

David.

[dajare (dajare)]

Just for clarity, here is same text, equivalent text width, in Vim, with "set linebreak" on. How much more legible!

[dajare (dajare)]

Could this be considered a duplicate of Bug #883835, "Imitate vim textwidth"?

If so, this issue can be closed.

[The Lemon Man (lemonboy)]

Hello,
this was a ridiculously low-hanging fruit so I took the chance and fixed this.

[dajare (dajare)]

@lemonboy : nicely done! And that was particularly "low-hanging", wasn't it. Odd that it wasn't implemented that way in the first place.

Now hoping a compiled version gets pushed soon. (I get updates via PPA.)

Thanks!

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Turns out there was a $25 bounty on this bug so be sure to claim it:

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1423128-enabling-wrap-text-does-not-break-lines-at-word-boundary/developers

[The Lemon Man (lemonboy)]

It seems that you can't claim the bounty unless this bug is closed.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Try again in 24 hours

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:44 AM, The Lemon Man <email address hidden> wrote:

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