Why does Beyond Compare wrap my line before encountering the newline?

[IChickenNugget]

Hello,

I have Beyond Compare version 4.2.9 (build 23626).

I'm seeing some strange line wrapping behavior from BC4. Every time I open the attached (BeyondCompare.txt) file. I see lines 2 and 3 wrap. But line 1 seems fine. I've also opened the same file using another text editor with no line wrapping and included a screen capture for reference.



My expectation is for beyond compare to not wrap the lines until encountering the carriage return newline.

Am I reaching the limits of a line buffer?

[dempson]

Replacing the tab near the beginning with a space produces the same results, and the order of the lines doesn't matter.

With a space instead of tab, it is clear what is happening:

The first line has 4096 characters before the CR/LF and is not wrapped.
The second line has 4097 characters before the CR/LF and the last character is forced onto a new line.
The third line has 4112 characters before the CR/F and the last 16 characters are forced onto a new line.

The pattern is consistent with Beyond Compare's Text Compare limiting the line length to 4096 characters, with any text beyond that pushed onto a new line.

This is not a fixed limit: there is a setting for the maximum line length in Tools > File Formats, which defaults to 4096 characters per line. You can set it differently for each text-based file format, on the Conversion tab. (There is no corresponding setting for table-based file formats such as CSV.)

[IChickenNugget]

This is not a fixed limit: there is a setting for the maximum line length in Tools > File Formats, which defaults to 4096 characters per line. You can set it differently for each text-based file format, on the Conversion tab. (There is no corresponding setting for table-based file formats such as CSV.)

This is what I was looking for.

Thanks.