Hi all, This may or may not be a naive approach in Vim, so if there's a better way, please say.
Whenever I want to disable Vim wrapping lines at a certain width, I set this: :set tw=0 And then my lines are never wrapped. This is fine -- it's what I want. But one thing I've always wondered about is if there's a way for Vim to still keep "tw=0" but soft-wrap at a certain length? What I dislike about setting "tw=0" is that the size of the line is dependent on the size of my terminal. What I'd like to achieve is still keeping "tw=0" set, but for vim to visual layout the lines as though it had wrapped at a width of, say, "78" characters, or some other value. To give a reason why I even set "tw=0" in the first place, I often use vim to write long messages in HTML forms, especially textareas. Often, these things don't like to have wrapped text at all, and I've found that if I set "tw=0" beforehand in Vim, I can then copy and paste the whole lot into a textarea, and when the text is submitted and displayed in something like a forum-post, it looks as though I had typed it directly into the textarea. If the above is possible in still setting "tw=0" and visually making the lines appear to wrap, I would still want the behaviour of copying and pasting text to still retain the fact that even though the lines appear to be wrapped at a certain value, they're still as one line. I hope that makes sense, and I appreciate any suggestions people might have. Note that I have read up on formatoptions and the like, and I thought some of those options might help; but I admit it was a guess on my part, and am unsure what side-effects setting them might have. Was formatoptions the right thing to be reading about? Any ":h" pointers are welcome as well. :) TIA! Jason -- 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
