Teemu Likonen-2 wrote: > > Your original question is quite common on this list but unfortunately > Vim just can't operate optimally with very long, wrapped lines. >
I just can't believe, that there is no way to customize that. I've not used vim before, so I'm quite noobish too it, but I liked it, since I first saw it. I'm probably gonna stick with it - also because I don't want to learn all different keystrokes again - but this one thing is really bugging me. Every other editor I know, once I scroll onto a wrapped line, scrolls down the display for just one screen line and displays only the beginning of line, the cursor is beeing place on, if it is wrapped - and not all the rest of it, too, resulting in being pushed out of the current view into a new view, several screen lines further down. This does not only make reading continuesly very hard, because your eyes have to move up several lines, but also is it possible, that in case of very long lines, that don't even fit on screen when they're wrapped, I will never actually see the last line before the long one and the long one itsself on screen together, which makes editing very hard, too. I don't know a lot editors I admit, but this seem the most unnatural thing to do and I don't see, why it would not be implemented - at least as an optional view if not as the default. Teemu Likonen-2 wrote: > > Option "set display=lastline" is useful, though. > That option I have set but it only effects the display in that way, that the line is displayed, even though it does not fit on screen. Vim still wants to show the whole line once you're on it. Also I noticed 'scrolloff', which specifies, how many text lines to display from the cursor position. Set to 0, you won't see any line under the cursor, if it is on the last line of the screen. I guess, if this value was settable to a negative value, vim would not even insist on displaying the very one line, the cursor is on - but it is'nt. However, a single option to tell vim, that the value of scrolloff is too be taken for display lines and not for text lines, would be, what makes me happy. I'm now using a very unsatisfying workaround by setting a value to 'textwidth', so I don't even get long lines. But this is only applieable to text passages (like in a tex file) and not to any syntax related stuff (like also in tex files). Still hoping, that there is another more effictive way of doing this. /Conker -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Long-lines-and-scrolling...-tp27876340p27925326.html Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
