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Command to toggle word wrap in Vim While :set wrap will turn on word wrap in Vim and :set nowrap will turn off word wrapping, you can also use both commands with the ! (bang) symbol to toggle word wrap.
If you want to wrap lines in a specific area, move the cursor to the text you want to format and type gq followed by the range. For example, gqq wraps the current line and gqip wraps the current paragraph.
Show activity on this post. then just press Ctrl-J whenever you want to split a line.
A sequence of zero or more non- <newline> characters plus a terminating <newline> character. And, therefore, they all need to end with a newline character. That's why Vim always adds a newline by default (because, according to POSIX, it should always be there). It is not the only editor doing that.
Use
:set wrap
To wrap lines visually, i.e. the line is still one line of text, but Vim displays it on multiple lines.
Use
:set nowrap
To display long lines as just one line (i.e. you have to scroll horizontally to see the entire line).
I like that the long lines are displayed over more than one terminal line
This sort of visual/virtual line wrapping is enabled with the wrap window option:
:set wrap
By default this will wrap at the first character that won't fit in the window. This means it will wrap in the middle of a word if that's where the window boundary lies. To change it to wrap on word boundaries, you can also:
:set linebreak
This will cause wrap to only wrap at the characters in the breakat setting, which defaults to space, tab, and small set of punctuation characters.
:set breatat
breakat= ^I!@*-+;:,./?
I don’t like that vim inserts newlines into my actual text.
To turn off physical line wrapping, clear both the textwidth and wrapmargin buffer options:
:set textwidth=0 wrapmargin=0
I'm not sure I understand completely, but you might be looking for the 'formatoptions' configuration setting. Try something like :set formatoptions-=t. The t option will insert line breaks to make text wrap at the width set by textwidth. You can also put this command in your .vimrc, just remove the colon (:).
Use :set nowrap .. works like a charm!
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