How can I prevent line wrapping and instead allow horizontal scrolling in Gedit?












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I am writing long lines of data to a text file using Python. But when I open the text file using gedit, I don't find that the lines that I wrote are displayed into one line each (i.e every line from the data that I wrote is divided into one or more lines in the file as shown in the photo).



screenshot with line wrap



What I want is to be able to scroll horizontally with gedit so that the lines that I write will be displayed in one line each.

Is it possible to scroll horizontally in gedit?










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  • Try holding Shift and scrolling. That's how horizontal scrolling works in most modern apps

    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Dec 21 '18 at 11:28











  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy The scroll bar doesn't appear until you turn off Text Wrapping. Please see my answer below. Thanks :)

    – WinEunuuchs2Unix
    Dec 21 '18 at 12:23
















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I am writing long lines of data to a text file using Python. But when I open the text file using gedit, I don't find that the lines that I wrote are displayed into one line each (i.e every line from the data that I wrote is divided into one or more lines in the file as shown in the photo).



screenshot with line wrap



What I want is to be able to scroll horizontally with gedit so that the lines that I write will be displayed in one line each.

Is it possible to scroll horizontally in gedit?










share|improve this question

























  • Try holding Shift and scrolling. That's how horizontal scrolling works in most modern apps

    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Dec 21 '18 at 11:28











  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy The scroll bar doesn't appear until you turn off Text Wrapping. Please see my answer below. Thanks :)

    – WinEunuuchs2Unix
    Dec 21 '18 at 12:23














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I am writing long lines of data to a text file using Python. But when I open the text file using gedit, I don't find that the lines that I wrote are displayed into one line each (i.e every line from the data that I wrote is divided into one or more lines in the file as shown in the photo).



screenshot with line wrap



What I want is to be able to scroll horizontally with gedit so that the lines that I write will be displayed in one line each.

Is it possible to scroll horizontally in gedit?










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I am writing long lines of data to a text file using Python. But when I open the text file using gedit, I don't find that the lines that I wrote are displayed into one line each (i.e every line from the data that I wrote is divided into one or more lines in the file as shown in the photo).



screenshot with line wrap



What I want is to be able to scroll horizontally with gedit so that the lines that I write will be displayed in one line each.

Is it possible to scroll horizontally in gedit?







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  • Try holding Shift and scrolling. That's how horizontal scrolling works in most modern apps

    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Dec 21 '18 at 11:28











  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy The scroll bar doesn't appear until you turn off Text Wrapping. Please see my answer below. Thanks :)

    – WinEunuuchs2Unix
    Dec 21 '18 at 12:23



















  • Try holding Shift and scrolling. That's how horizontal scrolling works in most modern apps

    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Dec 21 '18 at 11:28











  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy The scroll bar doesn't appear until you turn off Text Wrapping. Please see my answer below. Thanks :)

    – WinEunuuchs2Unix
    Dec 21 '18 at 12:23

















Try holding Shift and scrolling. That's how horizontal scrolling works in most modern apps

– Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Dec 21 '18 at 11:28





Try holding Shift and scrolling. That's how horizontal scrolling works in most modern apps

– Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Dec 21 '18 at 11:28













@SergiyKolodyazhnyy The scroll bar doesn't appear until you turn off Text Wrapping. Please see my answer below. Thanks :)

– WinEunuuchs2Unix
Dec 21 '18 at 12:23





@SergiyKolodyazhnyy The scroll bar doesn't appear until you turn off Text Wrapping. Please see my answer below. Thanks :)

– WinEunuuchs2Unix
Dec 21 '18 at 12:23










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On the window bottom of gedit click on the Line number / Column number section:



gedit text wrapping.png



Uncheck the Text wrapping option and a horizontal scroll box will then appear. Lines will no longer be wrapped.





If you want the setting to be permanent change your preferences. Use: Edit => Preverences => View => Enable text wrapping:



gedit preferences menu.png





You can't access preferences if you are using sudo -H gedit though. You need to do this with regular user using gedit only. Then you can have sudo inherit your user preferences with a script such as this: How can I sync my root gedit with my user gedit's preferences?






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    On the window bottom of gedit click on the Line number / Column number section:



    gedit text wrapping.png



    Uncheck the Text wrapping option and a horizontal scroll box will then appear. Lines will no longer be wrapped.





    If you want the setting to be permanent change your preferences. Use: Edit => Preverences => View => Enable text wrapping:



    gedit preferences menu.png





    You can't access preferences if you are using sudo -H gedit though. You need to do this with regular user using gedit only. Then you can have sudo inherit your user preferences with a script such as this: How can I sync my root gedit with my user gedit's preferences?






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      On the window bottom of gedit click on the Line number / Column number section:



      gedit text wrapping.png



      Uncheck the Text wrapping option and a horizontal scroll box will then appear. Lines will no longer be wrapped.





      If you want the setting to be permanent change your preferences. Use: Edit => Preverences => View => Enable text wrapping:



      gedit preferences menu.png





      You can't access preferences if you are using sudo -H gedit though. You need to do this with regular user using gedit only. Then you can have sudo inherit your user preferences with a script such as this: How can I sync my root gedit with my user gedit's preferences?






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        On the window bottom of gedit click on the Line number / Column number section:



        gedit text wrapping.png



        Uncheck the Text wrapping option and a horizontal scroll box will then appear. Lines will no longer be wrapped.





        If you want the setting to be permanent change your preferences. Use: Edit => Preverences => View => Enable text wrapping:



        gedit preferences menu.png





        You can't access preferences if you are using sudo -H gedit though. You need to do this with regular user using gedit only. Then you can have sudo inherit your user preferences with a script such as this: How can I sync my root gedit with my user gedit's preferences?






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        On the window bottom of gedit click on the Line number / Column number section:



        gedit text wrapping.png



        Uncheck the Text wrapping option and a horizontal scroll box will then appear. Lines will no longer be wrapped.





        If you want the setting to be permanent change your preferences. Use: Edit => Preverences => View => Enable text wrapping:



        gedit preferences menu.png





        You can't access preferences if you are using sudo -H gedit though. You need to do this with regular user using gedit only. Then you can have sudo inherit your user preferences with a script such as this: How can I sync my root gedit with my user gedit's preferences?







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