On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/06/11 19:05, Oursmentvotre wrote: >> >> Hi fellow VIM users, >> >> I came back to vim after testing many editors, I like to change a lot >> of editors. >> >> Anyway, these days I am writing a lot of latex and my co-workers want >> it to be soft wrapped (one paragraph is a loooong line). I managed to >> do the soft wrap in vim and it works wonderfully. However, one thing >> that bother me is the ways vim handles lines that are to long to stay >> all on the screen. If that happens it just displays @s characters at >> the beginning of the lines the content that could be displayed being >> then hidden... The lines being soft wrapped it can be a significant >> amount of text missing at the bottom of the window and I therefor >> often have to move a lot to uncover the next paragraph where I need >> some info and then come back to my insertion point. >> >> Is there a magic invocation to throw at vim to make him displays all >> he can without replacing with these @s ? >> >> Thanks a lot >> cheers. >> >> Guillaume >> > > see :help 'display' > > The default is empty, in that case, if 'wrap' is set, only "full" file-lines > are displayed (unless the current one is bigger than the whole window) and > if the last line doesn't fit, it is replaced by lines with @ at the left > margin and nothing else. Thisis expected and Vi-compatible. > > With > :set display+=lastline > then if the last line doesn't fit, the last three characters that fit are > replaced by @@@ and the part of the line before that is shown. > > > HTH, > Tony. > -- > Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder > aloud what the country could do under first-class management. > -- Senator Soaper >
Hey Ulf, Tony thank you both for the answer. It works perfectly, my life will be brighter :D. Have fun. Guillaume. -- 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
