Re: [clug-talk] line wrap in Vim

[Gustin Johnson]

Quoting Michael Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hello Gustin,

I changed set nls to set hls because my vim editor was giving an error
message.

hls is what what I have saved, not sure nls is.

I no longer have an error message, but with the following .vimrc file I
still could not get line wrap to work in Vim:

syntax on
set wrap
set hls
set noia

From within vim, what happens when you type:
:set wrap

without the ":"


prefixing a colon ":".

In this case it should wrap with the width of your terminal.

You could put something like this:
set textwidth=80
in your .vimrc to force 80 colums

For writing regular text (ie. not code) I will often use
set wrapmargin=8

the .vimrc reads the exacts same things you can do manually from within vim jsut So, to test the things in your .vimrc, you can enter them in once inside vim by

I looked at http://www.vim.org/tips/ but was overwhelmed by the volume
of tips.

Yes there is a lot there.  Usually I am looking for something when I go there.

Since you mentioned c, you set the file type for syntax highlighting:
eg.
set filetype=python
set filetype=c
set filetype=php

Thanks in advance,

Michael Walters

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Gustin Johnson wrote:

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 06:00 -0600, Michael Walters wrote:

Hello Gustin,

Why did you set the following?:

set noexpandtab

This causes vim to use a tab character instead of a set of spaces.

Does that mean that you can not now use tab in Vim?

I use TAB all the time.  It is just a different behaviour from the
"stock" vim.

For ordinary text files like my daily agenda I like to have line wrap
working for long agenda items. And when line wrap was on it did not seem
to hurt the compilation of my C programs.

I looked for .vimrc in both my /home directory and my /home/michael
directory and it did not seem to be there. The file .viminfo does seem
to be there.

Should I create a .vimrc file containing the following? :

Yes.  It is not created by default (on the distros I have used anyway).

syntax on
set wrap
set is
set nls

I have left out the following on the previous list:

set ignorecase (because C programming is case sensitive)
set noexpandtab( because I want line wrap to go to my last indentation).

You can also set the following:
nmap <silent> <C-N> :silent noh<CR>

What this does is map Ctrl-N to turn off your search highlighting, which
I personally find annoying (hence the key mapping)

Also, a useful tip is the "*".  Pressing "*" will search for the word
under the cursor.  Like everyone else who learns about this I wish I had
figured it out far earlier than I did.

I periodically check http://www.vim.org/tips/ which is where I find some
of this stuff.

Cheers.



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