Cannot enable visual line mode globally

Question

I would like visual-line-mode to be always on.

For this reason I put in the very end of my init.el file the following line of code (global-visual-line-mode 1) (as suggested here).

Anyway, the above code does not work and so. I still have to enable visual-line-mode for every buffer I need it.

How can I have it permanently on? Why is the above code not working?

Answer 1

I have no experience with emacs.. I merely use it for just org mode. But I did manage to permanently enable visual-line mode (aka proper line wrapping) globally, here is what i did:

The website OP mentioned (http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_long_line_wrap.html) instructs that the snippet

(global-visual-line-mode 1)

be written somewhere in the .emacs file (which is in the usually in C:\Users\"your user name"\AppData\Roaming directory). I don't know where exactly to put that snippet in .emacs file because, well, I am using Spacemacs so I edited the .spacemacs file. Towards the end of the text inside the .spacemacs file there is the following code, where I added the additional line (global-visual-line-mode 1) as shown:

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  "Configuration function for user code.
This function is called at the very end of Spacemacs initialization after
layers configuration.
This is the place where most of your configurations should be done. Unless it is
explicitly specified that a variable should be set before a package is loaded,
you should place your code here."
  (global-visual-line-mode 1))

Answer 2

All - I am new to EMACS but it is awesome. I have been adding things to my ~/.emacs file I finally just put the (global-linum-mode t) and (global-visual-line-mode 1) at the top of the file and now it is working. I am on Linux Mint and have Emacs version 26.3. hope this helps