Soft wrap option
- Dominant language
- Java
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Description
### Description
It's quite weird to have a huge IDE with tons of options, and not what any editor on planet does: text wrap on/off via menu option. Yes, we can do it based on MIME type but it's not enough because... see the use case...
### Use case/motivation
For example, I use html both for coding (and I don't want to wrap code) but I also use HTML to write notes (and there I want soft wrap). A the moment I have to use Geany or Vim for that.... and it's quite ridiculous that I have to change software for that reason.
### Related issues
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### Are you willing to submit a pull request?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating NetBeans' editor view and menu-action code, then trace how MIME-based wrapping is configured. Done means a discoverable menu option can toggle soft wrapping independently for the current editing use, including HTML used as notes versus code.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- desktop-dev, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100