I know kate has a feature that automatically breaks a line with a newline if the line
exceeds beyond a certain number of characters like 80.
Notepad++ has a word wrap feature under the Views table, but it doesn't insert a newline
character. It simply splits long lines visually without inserting actual newlines.
Is there a plug-in or feature in Notepad++ to automatically break long lines using newlines automatically?
Best Answer
I don't know if there's a plugin, and I can't find any menu item to do this but it can be done with regular expression replace all...
\s(?<=.{80})
$0\r\n
This will find the nearest space
\s
after 80 characters look behind(?<=.{80})
and replace with the entire match$0
followed by carriage return\r
& new line\n
for DOS/Windows.Use just a new line
\n
for Linux.