re soft word wrap >I have advocated seeing lines (with a CR and/or LF) as paragraphs, and > making the display of lines a matter of the particular display, not the > original data. That is much more natural for wrapped text, i.e. real > text rather than computer-parseable files.
I agree. Meanwhile I wrote a friend who is a vim aficionado, and he advises it IS possible to achieve soft word wrap in vim. When editing a text file, if you want word wrapping, but ONLY want line breaks inserted when you explicitly press the enter key: :set formatoptions=1 :set lbr lbr tells vim to word wrap visually, but formatoptions=1 tells vim to not insert hard newlines when you edit the middle of a 'paragraph.' rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
