On (09:15 29/12/08), Dave Wood <[email protected]> put forth the proposition: > >On (07:16 29/12/08), Dave Wood <[email protected]> put forth the >proposition: >> >>On (07:04 29/12/08), Dave Wood <[email protected]> put forth the >>proposition: >>> >>>I have been looking for a way to do this but nothing is coming to light. >>> >>>Basically I would like to visually word wrap at say 70 characters, but >>>*only* visually - I still want to keep unbroken praragraphs in the text. >>>Perhaps there is a way to set left/right margins, or to somehow lie to vim >>>about the size of the console. This is in vim in linux console, not gvim. >> >>I have found 'set columns' which seems ok but if anyone has further ideas, >>especially on margins, that would be fine too. > >Ok so this works fine apart from a niggling thing that I can't seem to cure: > >When I use the command it sends the cursor to the beginning of the >document. I tried to make some functions to set marks, but it doesn't work as >expected: > >function! Set80() > mark z > set columns=80 > g`z >endfunction > >function! Set128() > mark z > set columns=128 > g`z >endfunction > >The cursor still goes to the start of the doc. I also noticed that while >using these (I have F2 and F3 bound to them) on some files it stays put, >but in a txt file I'm testing on it moves back. I also made sure that the >mark would be within the column limits of the txt file when resizing. > >What am I doing wrong?
It seems to be function keys in plain linux console do this. Fixed. > > >> >>> >>> >>>This is for text documents which will be converted to rtf by abiword's >>>commandline options at some later date. >>> >>>Any ideas gratefully recieved. >>> >>> >>>-- >>>It is true that if your paperboy throws your paper into the bushes for >>>five straight days it can be explained by Newton's Law of Gravity. But >>>it takes Murphy's law to explain why it is happening to you. >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>As I was going up Punch Card Hill, >> Feeling worse and worser, >>There I met a C.R.T. >> And it drop't me a cursor. >> >>C.R.T., C.R.T., >> Phosphors light on you! >>If I had fifty hours a day >> I'd spend them all at you. >> >> -- Uncle Colonel's Cursory Rhymes >> >> >> >-- >Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write >in BASIC after reaching puberty. > > > -- Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a thing he tells you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
