Karsten Gerloff wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently writing a lot of text in vim that will later need to
transfer to a word processor (OpenOffice 2.0 in this case).
Since it makes reading easier, I want to make lines wrap at 66
chars; this has long worked fine with
set textwidth=66
But this inserts hard line breaks (<EOL>), which I don't want to
show up later in the word processor. No luck at vim.org. So I
tried the vim FAQ at
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/vimfaq.html
and it told me to put the following into my .vimrc:
:set wrap
:set linebreak
:set textwidth=0
:set showbreak=>>>
which works nicely as far as the EOLs are concerned. But the lines
still run over the whole width of the screen. Setting textwidth=66
re-introduces the unwanted EOLs.
Any hints?
(yes, I know that this is wanting to have my cake and eat it too
-- but that's why I started using vim in the first place :-)
Thanks,
Karsten
In gvim, and in some but not all console terminals, you can use
:set wrap linebreak textwidth=0 columns=66
in order to place the right margin of the screen where you want the lines to
break.
Best regards,
Tony.
