Emacs: Toggle Word Wrap

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Alt+x toggle-word-wrap to wrap words at word boundary.

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emacs Alt+x toggle-word-wrap

put this in your Emacs Init File:

;; force line wrap to wrap at word boundaries
;; http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_toggle-word-wrap.html
(setq-default word-wrap t)

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