> This is the second and last post in a series of things I've always > wondered about vim. :-)
Oh, trust me...it's not likely your last -- I've been using vim for about 10yrs (since the 5.x days), and answering lots of questions here (I think I'm in the top-5 loudmouths-of-all-time on the list stats), and I still have the occasional question for the list. :-) > Again, I've searched for the answer several times over the > years, and I'm surprised that it seems nobody else has asked. Because some folks who want this may have found an adequate solution? ;-) > When you turn wrapping on in vim (:set wrap), you can't tell > from looking at the screen where a line starts. I sometimes > type /^ to highlight the first character in a line, but as > soon as I search for something else, this effect disappears. I > know there's :set list, but that messes up tabs, which I use > for indentation sometimes Well, in addition to sc's suggestion of 'showbreak', you can use 'listchars' to make a tab still appear as a tab (indentation-wise) if you want within 'list': :set list listchars+=tab:\ \ (that's "plus equal t-as-in-tango a-as-in-alpha b-as-in-bravo colon backslash space backslash space" in case it's unclear via email-munging). If your search-highlighting solution works for you, you could also do something like either :match Error /^\|$/ or if you like differing colors for SOL/EOL :match Error /^/ :2match Comment /$/ (adjust your highlighting link from Error/Comment to whatever you prefer) Hopefully one of the 3 suggestions will help you get close to what you want. -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
