Emacs: Line Wrap
Toggle Line Wrap Display
- Alt+x
toggle-truncate-lines
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when on, lines runs off and disappears on the right window margin. You have to horizontal scroll right to see them.
💡 TIP: This is useful when you just want to get an overview of long paragraphs.

put this in your Emacs Init File:
;; make emacs not soft-wrap lines by default for all buffers (setq-default truncate-lines t) ;; not recommended ;; if you do this, dired filenames or url may show at next line
Emacs Lines, Column, Cursor Position
Soft-Wrap Lines
- Emacs: Visual Line Mode
- Emacs: Toggle Word Wrap
- Emacs: Line Wrap
- Emacs: Novel Reading Mode 📜
- Emacs: Toggle Line Spacing Command 📜
Reformat Lines
- Emacs: Hard-Wrap Lines (fill-region)
- Emacs: Reformat to Long Lines (unfill-region) 📜
- Emacs: Reformat Lines for Source Code 📜