diff --git a/spec/text-editor-registry-spec.js b/spec/text-editor-registry-spec.js
index 6297b788b..7b4d0e283 100644
--- a/spec/text-editor-registry-spec.js
+++ b/spec/text-editor-registry-spec.js
@@ -418,14 +418,14 @@ describe('TextEditorRegistry', function () {
 
     it('sets the soft wrap indent length based on the config', function () {
       editor.update({softWrapHangingIndentLength: 4})
-      expect(editor.getSoftWrapIndentLength()).toBe(4)
+      expect(editor.getSoftWrapHangingIndentLength()).toBe(4)
 
       atom.config.set('editor.softWrapHangingIndent', 2)
       registry.maintainConfig(editor)
-      expect(editor.getSoftWrapIndentLength()).toBe(2)
+      expect(editor.getSoftWrapHangingIndentLength()).toBe(2)
 
       atom.config.set('editor.softWrapHangingIndent', 4)
-      expect(editor.getSoftWrapIndentLength()).toBe(4)
+      expect(editor.getSoftWrapHangingIndentLength()).toBe(4)
     })
 
     it('enables or disables preferred line length-based soft wrap based on the config', function () {
diff --git a/spec/text-editor-spec.coffee b/spec/text-editor-spec.coffee
index 5b47b58b9..4b0f7dece 100644
--- a/spec/text-editor-spec.coffee
+++ b/spec/text-editor-spec.coffee
@@ -5803,15 +5803,15 @@ describe "TextEditor", ->
       editor.setEditorWidthInChars(10)
       expect(editor.lineTextForScreenRow(0)).toBe 'var '
 
-  describe "::setSoftWrapIndentLength", ->
+  describe "softWrapHangingIndentLength", ->
     it "controls how much extra indentation is applied to soft-wrapped lines", ->
       editor.setText('123456789')
       editor.setEditorWidthInChars(8)
       editor.setSoftWrapped(true)
-      editor.setSoftWrapIndentLength(2)
+      editor.update({softWrapHangingIndentLength: 2})
       expect(editor.lineTextForScreenRow(1)).toEqual '  9'
 
-      editor.setSoftWrapIndentLength(4)
+      editor.update({softWrapHangingIndentLength: 4})
       expect(editor.lineTextForScreenRow(1)).toEqual '    9'
 
   describe "::getElement", ->
diff --git a/src/text-editor.coffee b/src/text-editor.coffee
index b52fba290..acbd21497 100644
--- a/src/text-editor.coffee
+++ b/src/text-editor.coffee
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ class TextEditor extends Model
     @autoIndentOnPaste ?= true
     @undoGroupingInterval ?= 300
     @nonWordCharacters ?= "/\\()\"':,.;<>~!@#$%^&*|+=[]{}`?-…"
+    @softWrapHangingIndentLength ?= 0
 
     @buffer ?= new TextBuffer
     @tokenizedBuffer ?= new TokenizedBuffer({
@@ -371,7 +372,7 @@ class TextEditor extends Model
       ratioForCharacter: @ratioForCharacter.bind(this),
       isWrapBoundary: isWrapBoundary,
       foldCharacter: ZERO_WIDTH_NBSP,
-      softWrapHangingIndent: @getSoftWrapIndentLength()
+      softWrapHangingIndent: @getSoftWrapHangingIndentLength()
     })
 
   destroyed: ->
@@ -2859,9 +2860,7 @@ class TextEditor extends Model
 
   setShowIndentGuide: (showIndentGuide) -> @update({showIndentGuide})
 
-  setSoftWrapIndentLength: (softWrapHangingIndentLength) -> @update({softWrapHangingIndentLength})
-
-  getSoftWrapIndentLength: -> @softWrapHangingIndentLength
+  getSoftWrapHangingIndentLength: -> @softWrapHangingIndentLength
 
   # Extended: Determine if the buffer uses hard or soft tabs.
   #