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soft wrap in ft:markdown should avoid wrapping tables

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Description

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

Open a markdown file with tables in it. Enable soft wrap. Also tables are wrapped, making them unreadable.

It would be useful to add an option to avoid soft wrapping of lines starting with |

Specifications

Commit hash: 225927b9
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Terminal: gnome-terminal

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Research direction

Start by tracing the ft:markdown soft-wrap handling in the Go codebase and identify where lines beginning with | are wrapped. Reproduce the issue with a Markdown table, then implement and verify the requested behavior or option so table rows remain readable when soft wrapping is enabled.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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