Wrapping the line at X characters (N++ 7.5.7)

[randomeer]

A few years back a user posted an excellent explanation of how to do a character-wrap in Notepad++.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/10642/how-do-i-get-the-file-to-wrap-the-line-at-78-characters/4

I tried Search/Replace solution on version 7.5.7. but I couldn’t get it to work.

Searching for SEARCH = .{40}(?!\R) returns “can’t find the text”.
Search mode is set at extended.
View, Word wrap in unchecked

I’m pasting simple notepad text, so no formatting, with space as space separator.

Could you advise on how to make it work?

Kind regards,

RND

Sample text

This is something I want to to split a 45 characters. One time as a “hard split” and one time as a soft split.

[Scott Sumner]

@randomeer said:

Search mode is set at extended.

You want Regular expression search mode for this technique, not Extended.