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Test results (macOS, local build): Manual test with a long line: Line breaks at word boundaries as expected. When a single word exceeds width (e.g. a long URL), it falls back to character wrapping. |
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Hi, thanks for your contribution. Let's add some tests to prove that word wrapping works as expected and prevent accidental regressions in future.
It would also be great if we can update the manpage and shell completions with the new option. I have asked Copilot to do that before with good results. But if you don't want to, we can always apply those changes separately later.
- Add integration tests for word wrapping: basic word boundary breaking, fallback to character wrapping for long words, line numbers, and short lines that fit without wrapping - Update manpage to document the new 'word' wrapping mode - Update bash, fish, zsh, and PowerShell completions with 'word' option - Avoid unnecessary clone of line_buf when word wrap is disabled
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Adds a
wordoption to--wrapthat breaks lines at word boundaries (whitespace) instead of mid-character. When a single word exceeds the terminal width, it falls back to character wrapping so nothing gets lost.Usage:
bat --wrap=word file.rsCloses #2751