Console: Word Wrap mode does not wrap long words, leaving a horizontal scrollbar

[jmcphers]

System details:

Positron and OS details:

Positron Version: 2025.01.0 (Universal) build 2
Code - OSS Version: 1.93.0
Commit: a36f4d7ccf01d05c97dee2b52020e59229900841
Date: 2024-12-02T02:49:27.204Z
Electron: 30.4.0
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.15.1
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.1.0

Interpreter details:

Any

Describe the issue:

Word Wrap doesn't wrap long words; it only wraps at "natural" wrapping points (spaces, punctuation, etc.)

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Try this R code and note that words are wrapped correctly:

cat(rep("LongWord", 22))

Then try this code:

cat(rep("LongWord", 22), sep="")

This results in a long word that you need to scroll horizontally to see the end of.

In addition, the console now has a horizontal scrollbar you can't get rid of without clearing the whole thing.

Expected or desired behavior:

It's debatable, but in my opinion word wrap mode should allow you to see all the output without scrolling horizontally, even if we have to break words at unnatural boundaries.

Were there any error messages in the UI, Output panel, or Developer Tools console?

No

[juliasilge]

We had this tracked in at least two other places, #2102 and #2381.