wrapstatus-vscode-extension

Adds a status bar item in VS Code (and VSCodium) to show current wrap status and allow changing without affecting settings

When editing files, I tend to swap between the word wrapping as needed as I read a file. It's always bugged me that I need to open the settings editor and find the specific setting to change in this case instead of having some easy way to toggle the wrapping, so I've added a status bar item to show and allow changing the word-wrap.

I've allowed the setting to be set through double clicks on the status bar item, but the column to wrap on, I'm assuming you'll change less often so leaving that to be changed through the settings editor should be OK.

This will display the current wrap setting on the status bar. For those wrap settings that are dependant on the setting defining the wrap column (i.e. 'bounded', which is shortest of window boundary and the wrap column, or the 'wordWrapColumn'), the wrap setting on the status bar will also show the current wrap column.

As the wrap setting itself, or the wrap column is changed in the settings, this will be automatically reflected to show the explicitly set value in your status bar.

Also allows you to double click the status bar item, which will cycle through the wrap settings (in the order of 'on', 'off', 'wordWrapColumn', and 'bounded'). I'd prefer this to be in-memory only, and not stored, but unfortunately that doesn't seem possible in VSCode, so the changed setting is in the Workspace context. It will be 'remembered' through restarts only within the current workspace.

Notices

This extension applies wrap settings for code files only. It will not affect the wrap settings for other file types (e.g. markdown, json, settings files, etc.). These seem to be managed elsewhere within Visual Studio Code.

As the extension scratches my itch, I'm not currently planning to add support for other file types, but if you'd like to see this, please raise an issue and I'll consider it.

Supported versions

This extension was tested on

VSCodium 1.73.1+
VisualStudio Code 1.73.1+

Package and Release

Important Make sure the package.json file is updated with the correct version number
Ensure the vsce NPM package is installed If not, run npm install -g vsce
Run vsce package to create the .vsix file To test the extension in your copy of Visual Studio Code, open the Extensions view, click on the '...' and select 'Install from VSIX...'. Select and install the VSIX package created in step 1
To publish the extension, either
- Run vsce publish (you'll need to be logged in to the marketplace)
OR
- Log into the Visual Studio Marketplace and upload the .vsix file

Acknowledgements

This extension is based upon the sample statusbar from https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples
The double click detection is based on tips & code from medo64 (from this repo - https://github.com/medo64/Code-Point)