Re: [vile] Columns and linewrap

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I use vile in a terminal that is 90 chars wide.  However, I always
> insert/edit with wrapwords on so my lines are never wider than
> 80 chars.
> However, sometimes I co-author documents with others that use
> the paradigm where a newline is a new paragraph, not a new line.
> For me, by default, these lines look enormously long, so I
> turn linewrap on for these documents.  Two questions remain:
>
> * Can I make linewrap also respect the 80 char boundary so that
>   lines by others look like my lines.

That sounds like
        :set fillcol=80

> * Can I make linewrap do wordwrapping.. that is not cut a word
>   in two if the 90 (or preferebly 80) char boundary is reached?

The "wrapwords" setting is supposed to work with fillcol (I see the
help-file implies that fillcol/wrapwords and wrapmargin are distinct).

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