Netbeans Word Wrap

Mar 11, 2011 · 1 minute read
Category: netbeans

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I love Netbeans, but there has been one bug bear that I just learned to deal with.

Files with very long lines (or even quite long lines) and Netbeans inability to line wrap.

Now though there is a possiblity to enable line wrapping. And its dead easy. And it works!

You can use word wrap in Netbeans.

Add the following to netbeans.conf (netbeans_installation_path/etc/netbeans.conf, by default /etc/netbeans.conf under linux):


-J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.linewrap=true

to the sixth line so it looks like this:


netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=200m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.linewrap=true"

and restart Netbeans.

Set the Line Wrap option in Tools->Options->Editor->Formating.

Works fine for me in Netbeans 6.9

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/255862/word-wrap-in-net-beans?tab=active#tab-top