Word wrap in verbatim environments [closed]

Question

I noticed that LaTeX's verbatim environment doesn't do word wrapping. How do I get it to word wrap verbatim text?

Answer 1

Essentially you can’t.

But the listings package, whose actual purpose is to format source code, does support word wrapping. So maybe you can use the listings environment instead.

Answer 2

Here is the full example for the listings package:

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{breaklines=true} 

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}
some text here
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

You might also add the following definitions for line numbering and _background_color:

\lstset{numbers=left, numberstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily, numbersep=10pt, captionpos=b} 
\lstset{backgroundcolor=\color{gray-5}}
\lstset{basicstyle=\small\ttfamily}
\lstset{framesep=4pt}

Add this for inline code:

\newcommand{\inlineCode}{\lstinline[basicstyle=\normalsize\ttfamily]}