Run sentence wrap without visual mode?

[malcolmbarrett]

Description

My collaborators and I switch between source and visual mode a lot. I want to keep our documents in a sentence-wrapped form. Right now we have:

editor_options:
  markdown:
    wrap: sentence
    canonical: true

But it only wraps in visual mode. Is it possible to run the wrapping algorithm on a given file or project all at once without going through them in visual mode one by one?

[cscheid]

I don't think so, but that's something we should consider. It's a bit complicated because the part of the code that handles visual vs source mode is in the IDE support, and you're asking for something that is currently done by the IDEs/extensions.

[Aariq]

Just want to second this. It looks like currently RStudio supports these settings when they're in the .qmd file, but not in _quarto.yml. Positron seems to not respond to them in either place. I would love this feature at a project level to help with collaboration via GitHub. Where's the right place to suggest this feature?

[cscheid]

The RStudio request would be at https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio, and the positron request at https://github.com/posit-dev/positron.

[cscheid]

With that said; although we're working on infrastructure to allow this kind of feature to work uniformly across Posit products, it's not quite ready to go. I expect it will be at least a few months before we can take on this specific request.

[malcolmbarrett]

I was hoping that work would extend to this! Thanks for your work on that infrastructure