On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Tim Gray wrote: > Vim does soft wrap, but it only wraps at the edge of the screen. It can also > be set to soft wrap at word breaks instead of in the middle of words.
Thanks, Tim. That much would be good enough for starters, especially if the Vim window is kept at a reasonable [for me] size. wo all MaxThink, the outlining application that I relied upon for about 20 years, does. However, when text was imported into word processors margins could be set. > Furthermore, you can have vim insert hard line breaks automatically for you > when you write/edit a paragraph. You can find out more if you search for > 'fo-table'. If you are writing in really plain text, this might be the way > to go. My preference, in my current state of ignorance, anyway, would be to never insert hard line breaks. I do have to share most of my writing with people who don't know anything but Word. So when ready for sharing I would import into another application for formatting. Apple's TextEdit is perfectly adequate most of the time. > Unfortunately, even with these options, this is an area that vim seems to > fall down a little bit on. Other text editors I've used have the capability > to soft wrap at user defined columns, while also matching the indent of the > first line with the soft wrapped lines. Given Vim's power and versatility shouldn't this be remediable? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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
