Gary Johnson, 13.02.2014 13:32:
> On 2014-02-13, mvxxc wrote:
> > Hello Vim users,
> > 
> > I have noticed that the formatting command "gq" is affected by the options
> > "linebreak" and "columns": If "linebreak" is set, lines are broken at 
> > different
> > positions if the value of "columns" varies, i.e. a different terminal size
> > can lead to a different result. Perhaps this should be mentioned in the help
> > pages or formatting should be independent of the number of screen columns? 
> > 
> > To test it, set options with ":se fex& fp& tw& lbr". Then use ":se co=80" 
> > and
> > ":se co=74" to format the following test line with "gqq". In the first case,
> > the line is not changed; in the second case, it is broken before the last 
> > word.
> > 
> > xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx
> 
> This is the intentional, documented behavior and is not a bug.
> 
> ":help gq" says, in part,
> 
>     If the 'textwidth' option is 0, the formatted line
>     length is the screen width (with a maximum width of
>     79).
> 
> In my experiments, this behavior was not affected by 'linebreak'.
> 
> Regards,
> Gary

You are right. The column number of the used terminal varied; my mistake. Thank
you for your help.

Regards

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