On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:16:05AM -0500, Emilio Perea wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:31:51PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> > On Apr 16 09:59:29, Stuart VanZee wrote:
> > > I've read the man page
> >
> > No you haven't:
> >
> > wraplen, wl [0]
> > vi only. Break lines automatically, the specified number of
> > columns from the left-hand margin. If both the wraplen and
> > wrapmargin edit options are set, the wrapmargin value is used.
> >
> > wrapmargin, wm [0]
> > vi only. Break lines automatically, the specified number of
> > columns from the right-hand margin. If both the wraplen and
> > wrapmargin edit options are set, the wrapmargin value is used.
>
> I don't think that's what he was looking for. He was looking for a
> toggle for the lines wrapping in the vi display, nothing in the file
> contents. As I understand it he wanted to see only a part of any lines
> longer than the display rather than have them wrap so as to appear to be
> on the lines below.
In that case, the leftright option might be the answer.
-Otto
