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Long code lines are not wrapped

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This is a small bug (cosmetic) that I have noticed while adding some code in a post:

Code with very long lines not being wrapped

I have artificially added some whitespace here and there, otherwise the line would have been way longer.

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Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Maybe I don't understand the problem, but code shouldn't get automatically line-wrapped, since doing so might affect the behavior of it in a lot of languages.

Alexei‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@Lundin - I think the wrap can be achieved by using overflow-wrap: break-word; or similar. You will get the text displayed on multiple lines, but no actual line breaks are there (copy-pasting it in a text editor will get a single line). A similar behaviour is happening while editing code with long lines.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Or the code blocks with lines too long for the space should get scrollbars so they stay in bounds without anything getting truncated. I don't know what's better here, scrolling or auto-wrap, but either would be better than letting them get so wide that they don't fit and over/underlap other content.

Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago

I'm thinking the root of the problem might be the programmer who writes 140 symbols long LoC and not the site?