Overleaf: Hard line break in the editor to make code more readable

[ASalvail]

Something I miss from Emacs Auctex extensions is the capacity to set a specific line length and
have the editor automatically insert a line break each time a word is written that goes over that limit.

Soft line break is achievable by resizing the editor window size, but this method has several problem :

• A soft line break does not increase the line number;
• The text is dependant on the window size and thus not displayed uniformly on different screens;
• Makes error finding (from line number) that much harder.
  This feature would make for more readable LaTeX documents.

To implement this : probably add an option in the settings to specify the length (with 0 for no automatic hard line breaks). Another companion feature would be to reformat a selection. For example, you made modifications to the center of a paragraph and now a line is only half full. This companion feature would readjust all selected lines to maximally use each line by moving the line breaks.

Thanks for considering this!

[lsawade]

It's been a long time since this was brought up, but I was surprised it hasn't been implemented! I assume it's not an easy task, but I would like hard-wrapping as well!
Cheers!

[frentello]

Yeah the ticket is now almost 5 years up. I would love to see this feature in the hopefully near future

[beltrame]

It's very much needed