On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 23:36 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
> Steve Hall wrote:
> > :help linebreak documents that it "is not used when...'list' is
> > on" but this means that toggling &list shifts the text. I noticed
> > this is on the ToDo:
> > 
> >   7   Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
> > 
> > Is this a difficult fix?
> 
> With 'list', tabs can be represented as ^I (if 'listchars' does not
> include "tab:") or as the "right" number of characters (if it does).
> 
> With 'linebreak' and 'wrap', virtual spaces are added in the middle
> of long lines to make them wrap at a 'breakat' character.
> 
> I suppose the second case has more import than the first, and would
> require an additional suboption in 'listchars' to optionally
> represent those virtual spaces as other than spaces.

I don't think that indicating virtual space is important, these is a
display device, not "text in my file".


-- 
Steve Hall  [ digitect dancingpaper com ]


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