No option to set 'No Word Wrap At All' in TextEdit?

TextEdit is a great plain text editor, but there is one thing that I would assume frustrates developers; it always, always, ALWAYS wraps the text to either the window or the page.  You cannot turn word wrap off completely.  Even going fullscreen, sometimes I have a line of code that's simply too long and should continue off the screen.  I have never seen a horizontal scrollbar using TextEdit.  I am a minimalist (to an extent) developer and like to just use a simple plain text editor.  Even *ahem* Microsoft Notepad allows you turn off word wrap completely.  (Technically though, it does wrap eventually after...I don't know LOTS of characters).
But anyways, is there a trick to getting a long lines of code to appear as they should in TextEdit?
Would anyone, or has anyone already tried to rally the troops to get a fix in place to allow us to completely turn off word wrap in TextEdit?

Thank you guys.  I know most developers don't consider TextEdit to be that great.  I have tried TextWrangler, but there's too much going on there.  I'm used to staring at thousands of lines of code in Notepad in my line of work, so I'm used to it.  I don't want syntax highlighting, auto tabbing, etc.  I'm just looking for a really, REALLY, simple text editor, and TextEdit is just fine, there's just no setting to turn off word wrap completely.
Thanks again.

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