[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Add option for linewrapping in message window (#1383)

[Benjamin Heiniger]

> Not sure I understand this, how can it be wrapped in any way without requiring a new line? 

Yes that wasn't very clear, sorry. What I meant was that if an already present message is for example split to two lines due to the wrapping and you make the window smaller, words from the end of the first line are added to the beginning of the second as expected. But if the second line then gets too long a third line is not added, the second line keeps getting elongated.

> Thats ok, just with no prior discussion you don't know if any of the contributors are interested and if it will get any traction. I personally doubt I would want this, making the C++ error novel longer is not a good idea. (my "personal best" is 3000 lines of errors for one missing character, try reading that wrapped).

Yes that's true, the reason I did it this way is that I made this together with #1381, so I already had the code.

While it can happen that you get a huge amount of error messages (3000 lines is very impressive :smile:), at least in my use case it usually doesn't and not having to scroll right to read the whole error message would outweigh the disadvantages of longer output.

Since this is a personal preference maybe it would be nice to have the option to enable it, then again if it's something nobody would use it wouldn't make sense to add it.

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