Re: [sup-talk] vim text wrapping

[Philippe LeCavalier <support@plecavalier.com>]

Excerpts from Philippe LeCavalier's message of Thu Mar 17 14:14:46 -0400 2011:
> Excerpts from Ico Doornekamp's message of Thu Mar 17 12:19:29 -0400 2011:
> > * On Thu Mar 17 15:26:51 +0100 2011, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> >  
> > > This is more of a vim question than it is a sup one but I'm not a
> > > member of the vim list so I thought I'd ask you guys first.
> > > 
> > > Since I don't write very well I always end up making changes while
> > > re-reading myself. When I edit a line Vim doesn't wrap anymore like it
> > > did when I first typed the text. So all the lines I've edited aren't
> > > wrapped like the others. It can make reading my mail challenging at
> > > times.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding how to properly edit text in vim?
> > 
> > I guess this can be called a 'feature' of vim, Bram probably has a good
> > reason for making it behave as it does. 
> > 
> > As far as I know, wrapping only occurs when you are in insert mode
> > adding text at the end of the current line, but not when you are
> > inserting text in the middle of a line.
> > 
> > My own habit is to just add or remove the text as a go, and hit the key
> > sequence 'gwap' to clean up the mess, which means so much as 'reformat
> > (rewrap) the current paragraph'. The vim help for 'gw':
> > 
> >   gw{motion}    Format the lines that {motion} moves over.  Similar to
> >                 |gq| but puts the cursor back at the same position in
> >                 the text.  However, 'formatprg' and 'formatexpr' are
> >                 not used.  {not in Vi}
> > 
> > where {motion} would be 'ap', meaning 'a paragraph'.
> > 
> > It looks kind of cumbersome in the beginning, but I'm very much used to
> > it and don't even think about it anymore.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> That's pretty much what I expected since I had already visited the
> options for textwidth and the like. I can certainly get used to a kbd
> sequence since I expect that sort of thing when using Vim. In fact,
> since adopting sup my hands don't really leave the keyboard.
> 
> However what James mentioned about formatoptions might alleviate that.
> James, I add these types of things to my vim line in config.yaml rather
> than my rc file. I to don't always want wrapping at 72 and the like. But
> I do always want this in sup.

Thought I'd post back after having lived with formatoptions+=a for a
day. This options is _really_ annoying. It's hard to explain, but
although it does what I wanted in that it automatically wraps text when
editing lines it also drove me nuts because it prevents you from
inserting linebreaks -something I do regularly. So I'm back to just -c
'set textwidth=72' and will employ the gwap kbd sequence.
 
-- 
Thanks,
Phil
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