Would a scrollbar on the left help? I presume you're using the
graphical version of vim.
Maybe not what you want, but:
:set guioptions+=l [that's an L]
Marshall
(I use vim primarily for writing, too, during most of the year, though
at the moment more for programming.)
On Jul 6, 2006, at 3:10 PM, George Reilly wrote:
Adding the Vim Users mailing list, because I can't answer these
completely.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Dooling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gvim on windows xp
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:53:12 -0500
Dear George:
I am a new convert to gvim. Trying to use it on Windows XP. I am
primarily a novelist, but a recent convert to Python, also.
I intend to use gvim mainly as a text editor.
Two things:
(1) Is there a way to have a "soft" border or offset on the left, so
that the text is not flush against the left window border? I've
searched
for hours with no luck. Autoindent would put an actual space in there
(which I wouldn't want).
I don't know of anything that will do exactly what you want, but ":set
number" might help.
(2) Is there a plug-in file especially for text? Already configured
for
79 spaces with linebreak etc already set.
I'm sure there must be something useful out there at vim.org. I have
" In text files, always limit the width of text to 75 characters
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt,*.htm,*.html setlocal tw=75
in my _vimrc.
Thank you so much for any help.
Richard Dooling
</rd>
http://dooling.com
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