Should we apply word-wrapping in Monaco?

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Feature Category

• User Interface / User Experience

Describe the problem

Currently, there is no word wrap in the Monaco editor and the users need to scroll horizontally

Describe alternatives you've considered

I see three options here:

• Keep it as-is, it's fine
• Enable word-wrap
• Add a button to toggle word wrap

What do you think?

[msm-code]

Related problem (and maybe fourth option) - there is a way to hide query editor, but no way to hide the query results. So it's either 40% editor 60% results or 100% result.

Maybe we could:

• increase the default editor width to at least 50% (not sure about it yet)
• Enforced minimal editor width, and when the window is too narrow collapse the matches view completely
• edit or change the UI more significantly, and instead of two split panes have either 100% editor or 100% results view.

This won't solve the problem, but may make it less important in practice.

I had this problem when I tried to record a screencast: I wanted to make a browser window smaller, but query editor quickly became too narrow to be useful.