Atom Long Text Line Wrapping Disable

Disabling Line Wrapping for Long Text in Atom Text Editor

Atom is a text editor widely used for programming on Linux PCs/servers, Windows, etc. This article introduces how to disable the phenomenon where long text gets wrapped in the Atom text editor.

Shou Arisaka
1 min read
Nov 22, 2025

Atom is a text editor widely used for programming on Linux PCs/servers, Windows, etc. This article introduces how to disable the phenomenon where long text gets wrapped in the Atom text editor.

From this state:

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I want it to be like this:

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In such cases, it seems you should enable something called soft wrap with ctrl-shift-P > Toggle Soft Wrap.

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As a side note, the state where text is wrapped as in the first example is apparently called hard wrap.

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Shou Arisaka Nov 22, 2025

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