On 05/01/09 03:40, Aman Jain wrote:
> I often come across text files that contain long paragraphs, and vim's
> numbering(:se nu) shows only one line for a paragraph until unless a
> newline is encountered.
> It is a pain to read that way.
> Is there a way to render a paragraph in the form of numbered lines
> whereby each line contains a fixed number of characters?
If you want /numbered/ lines where numbers correspond to screen lines
but maybe to only part of a "real" file line: no.
Reformat the file to insert line breaks at no more than a fixed length:
yes. Let's say you want lines of 100 characters (or maybe a little less
to avoid breaking in the middle of a word), then:
:setlocal tw=100
gggqG
will reformat the whole file to the given width, keeping paragraph
breaks (preexisting empty lines).
Or instead of gggqG, use <Visual>gq to format only the highlighted lines
(i.e. gq after using shift-v + cursor moves to set up a linewise visual
area).
Best regards,
Tony.
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