On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:38:08AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +0000, q wrote: > > > (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i > > > see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap > > > in _vi_?)) > > > > Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in elvis, ":set > > textwidth=NN" causes it to wrap at NN columns. > > If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want "set wraplen=NN" in > your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even > have multi-level undo. Better to just install vim & vim-rt and put "set > textwidth=NN" in your $HOME/.vimrc. > > brian
...success! works great. thanks for helping me out w/ excellent info. bentley taylor. //>
