Re: Autmagically adding new lines when text gets too long
Hi! --- Jeremy Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set textwidth=80 and would like Vim to automatically break a line (between words) when the line gets too big. However, this isn't working, Vim doesn't seem to be doing anything different. Is there some other option I need to set? Just do :set linebreak Where the lines are wrapped is determined by the option 'linebreak'. The default value should be ok. Best wishes, Georg ___ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 7p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com
Re: Re: Autmagically adding new lines when text gets too long
Hi! --- Jeremy Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, linebreak just *displays* a broken line, I want a *real* broken line. I want Vim to insert EOLs for me. I thought that is what textwidth would do. Of course, you still have to set 'textwidth', too. :set textwidth=80 :set linebreak will do, what you want. The option 'linebreak' does not do any wrapping, but just determines where Vim will wrap long lines. These breaks can be soft (if the option 'wrap' is set) or hard (if 'textwidth' or 'wrapmargin' is set). Just read :h linebreak :h textwidth :h wrapmargin :h wrap :h breakat Best wishes, Georg ___ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 7p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com
Re: Re: Re: Autmagically adding new lines when text gets too long
On 9/29/06, Georg Dahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! --- Jeremy Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, linebreak just *displays* a broken line, I want a *real* broken line. I want Vim to insert EOLs for me. I thought that is what textwidth would do. Of course, you still have to set 'textwidth', too. :set textwidth=80 :set linebreak will do, what you want. The option 'linebreak' does not do any wrapping, but just determines where Vim will wrap long lines. These breaks can be soft (if the option 'wrap' is set) or hard (if 'textwidth' or 'wrapmargin' is set). Just read :h linebreak :h textwidth :h wrapmargin :h wrap :h breakat Best wishes, Georg You were right (of course). I discovered the reason this was not working for me was because I didn't have the t option in formatoptions. Now that I have included that, it works! Thanks for your patience. Jeremy
Re: Autmagically adding new lines when text gets too long
Jeremy Conlin wrote: I have set textwidth=80 and would like Vim to automatically break a line (between words) when the line gets too big. However, this isn't working, Vim doesn't seem to be doing anything different. Is there some other option I need to set? Thanks, Jeremy With 'textwidth' set to 80, Vim should insert a hard line break after the rightmost space as you type the 81st character on a line. You can also use variants of the gq commands: gqq to reformat a line, Visualgq to reformat the Visual area, gqap to regormat a paragraph, gggqG to reformat the whole file. Best regards, Tony.
