Breaking of lines on the display or in the file.
Vim has a number of different ways to break or display long lines. This tag should be used for question that relate line-breaking questions on the display or changing the line breaks in the file.
Questions tagged [line-breaks]
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Can I join lines with a comma (or another character)?
I know I can join lines in Vim with J and several variants thereof (gJ, etc.); J will "Remove the indent and insert up to two spaces".
But is there also a straightforward way to insert another character instead of the two spaces? For example a comma…
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Keeping lines to less than 80 characters
The code standard that I use indicates that lines should have less than 80 chars. I want to indicate this automatically while I write to avoid raising the error later.
What is a good way of showing it?
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Automatically breaking lines in comments?
Vim has the excellent command set tw=79 which will automatically break your lines at 79 characters, however I like (just) my comments broken at 72 characters automatically.
Is there any good way to do this in Vim?
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arbitrary line endings in vim?
Is there any way to tell vim to use the NUL character as the end-of-line marker instead of LF, CR/LF, or CR?
More generally, is it possible to use any arbitrary character or sequence of characters as the EOL marker?
NOTE: I do not want to convert…
cas
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Change line breaking behaviour based on syntax of text vs. code
I am using Vim to edit LaTeX documents. I know I can use :set linebreak to prevent Vim from breaking lines in the middle of a word, but this works globally.
Is there a way to have line breaking respect word boundaries on text, but not break wherever…
aky-her
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Why are new lines being added automatically when I insert backticks?
I'm running gVim 7.4 on Windows 7.
I'm editing a text file and I insert text like the following:
1 - public SomeResult GenerateResult(IInput input, Action forEachEventAction)
If I add a ` before public and after the closing parenthesis…
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Line breaks while typing but can be fixed after with cap-J
My lines break when I am typing beyond a certain length in vim, but afterwards, if I move up one line and type J, the line will reconnect.
So it is apparently not a matter of fixed length. I would like the line not to break while typing. Is there a…
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how to break a long line into 80 characters per line
my .vimrc setting for wrapping line:
set nowrap " Don't auto wrap on load
set fo-=t " Don't wrap text when type
"set colorcolumn= 80
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how to avoid vim breaking line beyond 80 characters in fortran files
I have added the following two lines into my .vimrc file
" stop fortran 90 from automatically insert line break beyond 80
set textwidth=0 wrapmargin=0
" stop vim wrapping beyond 80, avoid visual breaking in vim
set nowrap
but still no success. vim…
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how to delete every char except newline?
Is there a simple way to delete all text except newlines ?
I found one that removes all empty lines :g/^$/d.
but I am looking at the opposite functionality, some command that deletes everything except newlines ?
If you are wondering why, it's mainly…
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