word wrap code blocks

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Fixed exception in IPython when disabling pprint with %pprint https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/issues/1646
 - Fixed issue where values longer than the console width produced invalid JSON https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/issues/1653
 
+## Changed
+
+- Markdown codeblocks now word-wrap https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/issues/1515
+
 ## [10.12.0] - 2021-10-06
 
 ### Updated

rich/markdown.py

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class CodeBlock(TextElement):
     ) -> RenderResult:
         code = str(self.text).rstrip()
         syntax = Panel(
-            Syntax(code, self.lexer_name, theme=self.theme),
+            Syntax(code, self.lexer_name, theme=self.theme, word_wrap=True),
             border_style="dim",
             box=box.SQUARE,
         )