Markdown-specific softWrap setting ignored when clicking in a file

[alex-r-bigelow]

To reproduce, edit .config to look like:

"*"
  editor:
    softWrap: false

...

".md.text"
  editor:
    softWrap: true

Opening a markdown file will initially be soft-wrapped, but clicking in the file seems to apply the Atom-wide setting.

I think there are a few other scenarios that trigger this switch; I'm having to constantly re-enable soft wrap manually whenever I'm in a markdown file. Note that custom softWrap settings work for other formats like LaTeX.

[burodepeper]

Have you researched or cross posted this to the repo that handles the soft wrapping? Might be the general Atom repo, not sure. I'm not aware that this package is actively interfering with wrapping.

[alex-r-bigelow]

I remember seeing some odd bugs filed under the core repository that are probably relevant, but as this seems to only be affecting markdown files, I figured the problem lived here? I saw a couple references in this repo to soft wrapping settings, so my immediate guess was that there were probably some breaking changes somewhere upstream that hadn't yet been accounted for? I'm still really new to the internals of Atom, so I really don't have a good sense where else this would be coming from.

[burodepeper]

Thanks for looking through earlier issues!

Try filing it in the core repository first. If that doesn't resolve anything, I could have a quick look as well. I remember having some issues with soft wrap in the past, but I've not actively been using Atom for a while now.

Additionally, what other markdown related packages do you have installed?

Does the problem persist if you switch to the core language-gfm package and disable language-markdown?

[alex-r-bigelow]

Yes, the problem does go away if I switch and disable language-markdown. I don't think I have any other markdown-related packages other than markdown-preview (and disabling it doesn't seem to change anything). Here are the contents of ~/.atom/packages if it's helpful:

atom-beautify
bombe
busy-signal
color-picker
colorbrewer-8-dark2-syntax
editor-settings
intentions
language-docker
language-glsl
language-latex
language-markdown
linter
linter-docker
linter-eslint
linter-pylint
linter-ui-default
multi-cursor
wordcount

Also, in case it's relevant, I'm running Atom v1.45.0 on Windows 10, and here's my full config.cson:

"*":
  "atom-beautify":
    general:
      _analyticsUserId: "309581cc-293d-4a9e-b1d3-40a7487115c9"
  "autocomplete-plus":
    confirmCompletion: "tab always, enter when suggestion explicitly selected"
  core:
    disabledPackages: [
      "linter-pylint"
      "language-gfm"
    ]
    restorePreviousWindowsOnStart: "no"
    telemetryConsent: "limited"
    themes: [
      "one-dark-ui"
      "colorbrewer-8-dark2-syntax"
    ]
    uriHandlerRegistration: "always"
  editor:
    fontSize: 11
    softWrap: false
  "exception-reporting":
    userId: "703574ec-d6a8-4838-9929-bb29448dbee0"
  "line-ending-selector":
    defaultLineEnding: "LF"
  "linter-eslint":
    disabling:
      disableWhenNoEslintConfig: false
    global:
      eslintrcPath: "C:\\Users\\Alex\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\\LocalState\\rootfs\\home\\home\\.eslintrc"
      globalNodePath: "C:\\Users\\Alex\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm"
      useGlobalEslint: true
  "linter-pylint":
    executablePath: "C:\\Users\\Alex\\Anaconda3\\Scripts\\pylint"
    pythonPath: "%p\\env\\bin\\pylint"
    rcFile: "C:\\Users\\Alex\\.pylintrc"
  "linter-ui-default":
    showPanel: true
  "markdown-preview":
    useGitHubStyle: true
  "spell-check":
    addKnownWords: true
    grammars: [
      "source.asciidoc"
      "source.gfm"
      "text.git-commit"
      "text.plain"
      "text.plain.null-grammar"
      "source.rst"
      "text.restructuredtext"
      "text.tex.latex"
      "text.md"
    ]
    knownWords: [
      "jupyter"
    ]
  "tree-view": {}
  welcome:
    showOnStartup: false
".latex.tex.text":
  editor:
    softWrap: true
    softWrapAtPreferredLineLength: true
".md.text":
  editor:
    softWrap: true
    softWrapAtPreferredLineLength: true

[burodepeper]

I see nothing out of the ordinary in your packages or config. I tried recreating your issue, but I can't get it to fail on my machine... Weird... Try posting it to the core package. I don't think I can be of much help to you.