java - Word Wrap in Net Beans

Question

Netbeans is great but there's no way to wrap text in it (or hopefully I haven't found it yet). Is there any way to do this, and if not, is there any similarly good IDE for Java with this functionality (hopefully free as well).

Answer 1

You can use word wrap in Netbeans.

Add the following to netbeans.conf (netbeans_installation_path/etc/netbeans.conf, by default /etc/netbeans.conf under linux):

-J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.linewrap=true

to the sixth line so it looks like this:

netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=200m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -J-Dorg.netbeans.editor.linewrap=true"

and restart Netbeans.

Set the Line Wrap option in Tools->Options->Editor->Formating.

Works fine for me in Netbeans 6.9 and 7