According to the man page for mc, the internal editor (mc -e) has a word wrap option. How can I turn this on? I have found settings in "Options" --> "General", however, this seems to only change text as it is typed in, and I cannot determine how to apply word wrap to text which has already been typed.
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mcedit's (or mc -e) word wrap is not like a regular word wrap in an editor. It is not just showing you a file with long lines wrapped so you can see the lines. Instead it actually and effectively creates new lines in your text file. It puts 'new-line' at the end of the lines and it alters your file.
As a proof, wrtie a couple of long lines in a file, than enable word wrap and let it wrap another couple or so lines. Save the file and than do a 'cat' of the file. You will see that it displays the lines wrapped.
answered Feb 8, 2012 at 13:30
mceditdirectly, and have a look atman mceditinstead.mcversion) instead. That executes the~/.mc/cedit/edit.indent.rcscript. Or add a command to the User menu, to executefoldorfmton a selection.