Emacs: Visual Line Mode

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .
Alt+x visual-line-mode
Turn on/off line wrap for current buffer.
emacs visual-line-mode 2021-05-01
emacs visual-line-mode 2021-05-01
Alt+x global-visual-line-mode
Toggle globally

By default, this is off.

To turn it on permanently, put this in your Emacs Init File:

(global-visual-line-mode 1)

Visual line mode does several things:

Emacs Lines, Column, Cursor Position

Soft-Wrap Lines

Reformat Lines (Hard-Wrap)

Show Line Number, Column Number

Highlight Current Line, Screen Line