Thanks. Very good points.
But another big problem I have with soft wrapping in Vim is that it actually makes indented text harder to work with. If you want to indent a block of text -- like a block quotation, or bulleted text in a list -- in Vim, you do this by inserting line breaks and putting spaces before each line. In a word processor, by contrast, you apply a "style" locally to the block quote that sets indentations for the first line and subsequent lines. I can't imagine how we would add this word-processor like behavior to Vim without making Vim much more complicated. Does breakindent handle this gracefully? On Feb 23, 10:53 am, Tom Link <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thoughts? > > Soft-wrap is good: > > - if want to sort lists (eg TODO lists) by prefix > - if you have to edit text on devices whose screen is too narrow to > display 70+ chars > - if you want to easily include the text in a word processor document > - if you want to edit e-mails (well, it depends of course) > - if you want to insert the text in textareas in your browser > - ... > > Even if it's true that text with hard line breaks work better in > conjunction with the usual set of text-related programs like grep > etc., I think an editor should support well editing soft-wrapped text > files. So I personally would like to so improved support for editing > soft-wrapped files. The breakindent patch could be a good starting > point. If the right margin could be configured too, it would be > perfect. > > tom. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
