Word Wrap in Net Beans

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Java guy picture Java guy · Nov 1, 2008 · Viewed 23.3k times · Source

Netbeans is great but there's no way to wrap text in it (or hopefully I haven't found it yet). Is there any way to do this, and if not, is there any similarly good IDE for Java with this functionality (hopefully free as well).

Answer

Sidarta picture Sidarta · Oct 30, 2010

You can use word wrap in Netbeans.

Add the following to netbeans.conf (netbeans_installation_path/etc/netbeans.conf, by default /etc/netbeans.conf under linux):

-J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.linewrap=true

to the sixth line so it looks like this:

netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=200m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.linewrap=true"

and restart Netbeans.

Set the Line Wrap option in Tools->Options->Editor->Formating.

Works fine for me in Netbeans 6.9 and 7

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