Long code lines are not wrapped

As Lundin points out, there are quite a few whitespace-sensitive programming languages out there, where automatic wrapping would change the apparent meaning of the code, such as Phython or JavaScript. In particular, wrapped lines must be properly indented in many contexts, which goes way beyond the capabilities of CSS.

I therefore vote for overflow-x: auto, i.e. displaying a horizontal scroll bar if lines are to long to fit the layout. That way, we get to see the question the author meant to ask, OP is nudged to manually format the question in readable way, but can still ask the questions that need long lines (and yes, if you want to talk about the HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor or extend a ClassFilterAwareUnionIntroductionAwareMethodMatcher you probably need a long line ;-)

(yes, these are actual class name from popular open source projects :D)

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meriton‭

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Code blocks that are wider than the column they're trying to fit in now get horizontal scrollbars. As noted in another answer, it's not safe to assume that line-wrapping won't change the correctness of code.

posted over 4 years ago

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Monica Cellio‭ staff

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