On Jan 5, 8:38 am, Tim Chase <[email protected]> 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?
>
> Yes, vim provides all manner of ways to ease this particular problem:
>
> 1) Show single lines as visually wrapped, but leave the original
> content:
>
> :set wrap
>
> 1b) Do #1, but break on word-boundaries:
>
> :set wrap linebreak
>
> 2) Wrap the lines by inserting line-breaks at word-boundaries
> for a given text-width (what I understand you describe)
>
> :set textwidth=75
> gggqG
>
> 3) Insert a hard new-line at a particular character offset,
> regardless of whether it lands in the middle of a word:
>
> :%s/\%75c/\r
>
> (might have to run this multiple times)
>
> For more info, check out
>
> :help 'wrap'
> :he 'linebreak'
> :he 'textwidth'
> :he gq
> :he \%c
> :he \%v
>
> -tim
thats cool :)
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