On (18:48 29/12/08), Matt Wozniski <[email protected]> put forth the proposition:
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>On 12/29/08, Dave Wood wrote:
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>> On (07:04 29/12/08), Dave Wood put forth the proposition:
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>>> 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.
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>> I have found 'set columns' which seems ok but if anyone has further ideas,
>> especially on margins, that would be fine too.
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>I don't know of any better way to do what you want than opening a
>split window and sizing it to force wrapping where you want it, but
>note that changing 'columns' can have bad effects if vim can't change
>the number of columns... for example, inside gnu screen.
:vnew seems to be a good way to do this. I can keep notes or whatever in
one window and type in the other. 62vnew will cause the original window to
be 65 characters across, which seems to be the correct number.
Thanks for the pointer.
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>~Matt
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>
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