Re: [vile] Columns and linewrap

[Thomas Dickey]

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

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:08:57AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > 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
>
> No, because linewrapping is "display time", while fillcol is "insert/edit
> time".  Besides that, linewrapping of lines longer than fillcol are still
> only wrapped when hitting the width of the terminal.

...I did figure this out (looks like you're just getting to the email ;-).

> > > * 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).
>
> Yes, but wrapwords only wraps words to the following line while you
> are editting and hit $fillcol number of columns.
>
> It seems in nvi/vim I can do: set columns=80.

I hadn't noticed that nvi does this - nvi (just like vi) always wraps.

> Then it works as I want to ("view time"), and in vim I can even
> do: set linebreak.
> So then it does no longer cut in the middle of words.

yes - it's described as display-only...

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