How to keep Soft Line Wrap at Column width Visual Studio Code and MarkDown

I'm trying Visual Studio Code at the moment and it's a fun and fast atom alternative. One of my early annoyances was that I could not figure out how to make my MarkDown files wrap at the desired column width.

The trick apparently is to define the following settings:

"editor.rulers": [80],
"editor.wordWrap": "wordWrapColumn",
"editor.wordWrapColumn": 80,
"[markdown]": {
    "editor.wordWrap": "wordWrapColumn",
    "editor.quickSuggestions": false
}

to override the Visual Studio Code specific defaults to markdown files not wrapping on 80 if you define that as a desired width (for split screen or just to have a better writing experience)

Personally I prefer to have the column width at about half the screen on an HD monitor so there are less words per line when I quickly read through my texts and future blog posts to check spelling or move things around.

How do you write?