From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:48:53 -0700Hi, I have kinda "reverse question" to this vi/vim problem: I am using vim as vim (not in compatible mode). When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text into emacs there was the possibility to reformat paragraphs wirh "fill-paragraphs" (ALT-Q) so there were linebreaks inserted and removed to make the paragraph fit best into the previously defined width of the line. I cannot find this functionality in vim...is there anything like that? Kind regards, mcc > On 8/5/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after > > every however many characters? > > Is it actually inserting line breaks? Or just wrapping long lines for > display? > > If actually inserting line breaks, then you have textwidth set > somewhere. You can turn it of with: > > :set textwidth 0 > > If it is just for display: > > :set nowrap > > BTW, :help will give you the built-in help system. > > Of course, there is also a method of fixing this in bash. > > alias vi=kedit > > :-) > > -Richard > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
