diff --git a/helix-view/src/document.rs b/helix-view/src/document.rs
index a8be03f2d..e066ea4a2 100644
--- a/helix-view/src/document.rs
+++ b/helix-view/src/document.rs
@@ -1232,7 +1232,12 @@ impl Document {
 
     pub fn text_format(&self, mut viewport_width: u16, theme: Option<&Theme>) -> TextFormat {
         if let Some(text_width) = self.language_config().and_then(|config| config.text_width) {
-            viewport_width = viewport_width.min(text_width as u16)
+            // We increase max_line_len by 1 because softwrap considers the newline character
+            // as part of the line length while the "typical" expectation is that this is not the case.
+            // In particular other commands like :reflow do not count the line terminator.
+            // This is technically inconsistent for the last line as that line never has a line terminator
+            // but having the last visual line exceed the width by 1 seems like a rare edge case.
+            viewport_width = viewport_width.min(text_width as u16 + 1)
         }
         let config = self.config.load();
         let soft_wrap = &config.soft_wrap;