<p dir="auto">I just installed the latest version of Atom yesterday, and have been trying it out.  I had an unsaved file open and noticed that soft wrap was not on.  I went into the preferences panel, turned it on, and went back to my open file (not saved yet) and soft wrap still wasn't applied.</p>
<p dir="auto">Instead, I copied the text, and pasted it into a new unsaved file and soft wrap was working then.</p>
<p dir="auto">Maybe this happens for files that are already open too?  Not sure.</p>
<p dir="auto">Moved over from <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="28537769" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/atom/settings-view/issues/47" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/atom/settings-view/issues/47/hovercard" href="https://github.com/atom/settings-view/issues/47">atom/settings-view#47</a></p>