Gustin Johnson wrote: > > Quoting Michael Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello Gustin, >> >> I changed set nls to set hls because my vim editor was giving an error >> message. > > > hls is what what I have saved, not sure nls is. > >> >> I no longer have an error message, but with the following .vimrc file I >> still could not get line wrap to work in Vim: >> >> syntax on >> set wrap >> set hls >> set noia > > > From within vim, what happens when you type: > :set wrap
I did a :set wrap before I put it in the .vimrc file and it did not wrap then either. > the .vimrc reads the exacts same things you can do manually from > within vim jsut > without the ":" > > So, to test the things in your .vimrc, you can enter them in once > inside vim by > prefixing a colon ":". > > In this case it should wrap with the width of your terminal. > > You could put something like this: > set textwidth=80 > in your .vimrc to force 80 colums > I will add set textwidth=80. But the line wrap does not even keep words together but lets them split. > For writing regular text (ie. not code) I will often use > set wrapmargin=8 > > >> >> I looked at http://www.vim.org/tips/ but was overwhelmed by the volume >> of tips. >> > > Yes there is a lot there. Usually I am looking for something when I > go there. > > Since you mentioned c, you set the file type for syntax highlighting: > eg. > set filetype=python > set filetype=c > set filetype=php > > >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Michael Walters >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> >> Gustin Johnson wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 06:00 -0600, Michael Walters wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello Gustin, >>>> >>>> Why did you set the following?: >>>> >>>> set noexpandtab >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> This causes vim to use a tab character instead of a set of spaces. >>> >>> >>> >>>> Does that mean that you can not now use tab in Vim? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I use TAB all the time. It is just a different behaviour from the >>> "stock" vim. >>> >>> >>> >>>> For ordinary text files like my daily agenda I like to have line wrap >>>> working for long agenda items. And when line wrap was on it did not >>>> seem >>>> to hurt the compilation of my C programs. >>>> >>>> I looked for .vimrc in both my /home directory and my /home/michael >>>> directory and it did not seem to be there. The file .viminfo does seem >>>> to be there. >>>> >>>> Should I create a .vimrc file containing the following? : >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Yes. It is not created by default (on the distros I have used anyway). >>> >>> >>> >>>> syntax on >>>> set wrap >>>> set is >>>> set nls >>>> >>>> I have left out the following on the previous list: >>>> >>>> set ignorecase (because C programming is case sensitive) >>>> set noexpandtab( because I want line wrap to go to my last >>>> indentation). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> You can also set the following: >>> nmap <silent> <C-N> :silent noh<CR> >>> >>> What this does is map Ctrl-N to turn off your search highlighting, >>> which >>> I personally find annoying (hence the key mapping) >>> >>> Also, a useful tip is the "*". Pressing "*" will search for the word >>> under the cursor. Like everyone else who learns about this I wish I >>> had >>> figured it out far earlier than I did. >>> >>> I periodically check http://www.vim.org/tips/ which is where I find >>> some >>> of this stuff. >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Thanks in advance. I will try your suggestions. Michael _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
