On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 at 15:55, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Do, 02 Jun 2022, Uday Reddy B wrote:
>
> >
> > Just another ping on this question to see if there is a way.
> >
> > -Uday
> >
> > On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 07:25, Uday Reddy B <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I was trying to find a way to have vim keep lines broken (i.e., not
> unwrap with auto format) when the lines ended with a certain character. For
> example, with Latex script, it's desirable to have:
> >
> >     This is a line. \\
> >     Designation \\
> >     Affiliation \\
> >
> >     I have formatoptions set to `tcqan` because I do need
> auto-formatting everywhere else and in general. However, with such options,
> vim would auto-format the above to:
> >
> >     This is a line. \\ Designation \\ Affiliation \\
> >
> >     My current approach is to switch into and out of `paste` mode when
> editing such lines to prevent unwrapping but it'd be convenient if this is
> automatically taken care of with some setting.
>
> I don't think this is currently possible, perhaps try to tune the
> 'formatlistpat' option so that those lines are detect as "lists"
>

Thank you for suggesting this - I'll explore it.


>
> But I would rather ask, if you see such lines, why do you format them in
> first place? This may depend on the document however. Not sure if this
> is easily possible
>

I don't manually/explicitly format them - I have 'a' set in formatoptions.
This basically means if I get my cursor in and around those lines while
being in the 'insert' mode, those are going to get formatted (unwrapped)
and lead to the undesired output.

Thanks,
-Uday



>
> Best,
> Christian
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