Emacs: Visual Line Mode

Alt+x visual-line-mode

Turn on/off line wrap for current buffer.

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:

• Makes lines wrap at word boundaries. (controlled by variable truncate-lines and word-wrap.)
• Makes up/down arrow keys move by a visual line. (controlled by the variable line-move-visual.)
• Makes the kill-line command delete by a visual line, as opposed to a logical line.
• Turns off the display of little return arrow at the edge of window. (controlled by the var fringe-indicator-alist.)