* Tim Guirgies <lt.infiltra...@gmail.com> [2011-06-07 03:43:45 +1000]:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:31:43PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > In just VIm, text wraps to my terminal, even when I explistily set the > > following befor typing. > > > > :set wrap > > :set tw=72 > > > > vim still blindly ignores textwidth, if I ditch my overtly long .vimrc, > > vim obeys like a good dog. but I loose lot of things that I've become > > accustomed to lol > > First of all, ":set wrap" only wraps _visually_, which explains why it > wraps to your terminal. If you have column display turned on, what does > it say in the bottom right? > > > My .vimrc has some crazy stuff in it, but nothing that wacky that it > > shouldn't see and obey line 104 ... as you can see, I stopped manually > > breaking at ~72. > Also, I forgot to mention that "l" is an option to ":set formatoptions"; > my bad. > > However, what you said leads me to suspect that somewhere in your > .vimrc, you're doing ":set formatoptions+=l". Look for that, or > similar. ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ grep formatoptions .vimrc 98: " set formatoptions=rq " Automatically insert comment leader on return, and let gq format comments ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ grep formatoptions .vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim 5:setlocal formatoptions+=w ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ AFIACT, formatoptions+=l isn't being set in any of my vim files... just to be sure... ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ grep -R "formatoptions+=l" .vimrc .vim/ Binary file .vim/temp/mutt-stewie-1000-22169-282303141413050223.swp matches ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ I love vim, I'm starting to like mutt just as much, but the both of them together, equals an unrivaled hated for me! No seriously, I don't know what I did or didn't do here ... I can make available the following if you want to go over it: .vimrc .muttrc (password removed of course) .vim/ .mutt/ > > Tim > > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?