[gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Grant]

Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
every however many characters?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Alexander Skwar]

Grant schrieb:
> Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> every however many characters?

Hm. How did you enable that in the first place?

You might want to check your /etc/vim/* and ~/.vim* files.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Richard Fish]

On 8/5/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> every however many characters?

Is it actually inserting line breaks?  Or just wrapping long lines for display?

If actually inserting line breaks, then you have textwidth set
somewhere.  You can turn it of with:

:set textwidth 0

If it is just for display:

:set nowrap

BTW, :help will give you the built-in help system.

Of course, there is also a method of fixing this in bash.

alias vi=kedit

:-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Justin R Findlay]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:19:41PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> every however many characters?

:set nolinebreak

echo set nolinebreak >> ~/.vimrc


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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Mark]

Look for:
set textwidth=....

Or shorthand:
set tw=...

If you set this to 0 .. then it will not wrap. You can do this on a
per file basis with the vim modelines:

# vim:set tw=0:

As suggested look in the rc files.

Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Rick van Hattem]

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On Saturday 05 August 2006 23:19, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> every however many characters?
>
> - Grant
vi doesn't do that on default, perhaps you mean line wrapping?
If so, "set nowrap" should fix it :)

Put it in your ~/.vimrc to make it default

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 23:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Grant schrieb:
> > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> > every however many characters?
> 
> Hm. How did you enable that in the first place?
> 
> You might want to check your /etc/vim/* and ~/.vim* files.
> 
> Alexander Skwar
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First of all, are you sure that it's actually a line break and not a
line wrap?  Find a line of text that seems to take up multiple lines.
Go to the beginning of that line and hit the End key.  If the cursor
jumps to another line, you know it's a line wrap, and it can be turned
off with "set nowrap".

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Grant]

> > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> > every however many characters?
>
> :set nolinebreak
>
> echo set nolinebreak >> ~/.vimrc

Yes!  Freedom!  Thank you everyone.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Grant]

> > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> > every however many characters?
> >
> > - Grant
> vi doesn't do that on default, perhaps you mean line wrapping?
> If so, "set nowrap" should fix it :)

nolinebreak actually fixed it.  Does anyone know why vi might be
inserting line breaks by default?  This is happening on my laptop and
server for all users.  I've never configured vi whatsoever.

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Grant]

> > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> > every however many characters?
>
> :set nolinebreak
>
> echo set nolinebreak >> ~/.vimrc

This worked great for plain vi, but the problem persists with mutt.
Any suggestions for mutt?

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Meino Christian Cramer]

From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 14:48:53 -0700


Hi,

 I have kinda "reverse question" to this vi/vim problem: I am using
 vim as vim (not in compatible mode). 

 When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text into emacs
 there was the possibility to reformat paragraphs wirh
 "fill-paragraphs" (ALT-Q) so there were linebreaks inserted and
 removed to make the paragraph fit best into the previously defined
 width of the line.

 I cannot find this functionality in vim...is there anything like
 that?

 Kind regards,
 mcc

 



> On 8/5/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to prevent vi from inserting a line break after
> > every however many characters?
> 
> Is it actually inserting line breaks?  Or just wrapping long lines for display?
> 
> If actually inserting line breaks, then you have textwidth set
> somewhere.  You can turn it of with:
> 
> :set textwidth 0
> 
> If it is just for display:
> 
> :set nowrap
> 
> BTW, :help will give you the built-in help system.
> 
> Of course, there is also a method of fixing this in bash.
> 
> alias vi=kedit
> 
> :-)
> 
> -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Philip Webb]

060806 Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text into emacs
> one could reformat paragraphs with "fill-paragraphs" (ALT-Q)
> so there were linebreaks inserted and removed
> to make the paragraph fit best into the previously defined line width.
> I cannot find this functionality in vim: is there anything like that?

Do you mean ':set lbr' ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:01:57AM +0200, Penguin Lover Meino Christian Cramer squawked:
>  When writing "normal" text in Emacs or loading normal text into emacs
>  there was the possibility to reformat paragraphs wirh
>  "fill-paragraphs" (ALT-Q) so there were linebreaks inserted and
>  removed to make the paragraph fit best into the previously defined
>  width of the line.
> 
>  I cannot find this functionality in vim...is there anything like
>  that?

>From user_10.txt of the vim help manual:

===============begin quote====================
Now lines will be broken to take only up to 72 characters.  But when you
insert text halfway a line, or when you delete a few words, the lines will get
too long or too short.  Vim doesn't automatically reformat the text.
   To tell Vim to format the current paragraph: >

        gqap

This starts with the "gq" command, which is an operator.  Following is "ap",
the text object that stands for "a paragraph".  A paragraph is separated from
the next paragraph by an empty line.

        Note:
        A blank line, which contains white space, does NOT separate
        paragraphs.  This is hard to notice!

Instead of "ap" you could use any motion or text object.  If your paragraphs
are properly separated, you can use this command to format the whole file: >

        gggqG

"gg" takes you to the first line, "gq" is the format operator and "G" the
motion that jumps to the last line.

In case your paragraphs aren't clearly defined, you can format just the lines
you manually select.  Move the cursor to the first line you want to format.
Start with the command "gqj".  This formats the current line and the one below
it.  If the first line was short, words from the next line will be appended.
If it was too long, words will be moved to the next line.  The cursor moves to
the second line.  Now you can use "." to repeat the command.  Keep doing this
until you are at the end of the text you want to format.
==================end quote=======================

HTH, 

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Justin R Findlay]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:25:09PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> This worked great for plain vi, but the problem persists with mutt.
> Any suggestions for mutt?

This is my mutt editor command.  Suit it to your desires, although I
reccommend keeping the line breaks unless you know of a way to get mutt
to format the outgoing mail with line breaks instead of having vim do it
in line as it gets kind of tedious reformating the text when you have a
difficult email to write. (:

But even on this account I may be able to offer some knowledge.  When
you need to reformat some text just select the text with <ctrl>-v or
<shift>-v or 'v' and do 'gq'.

$ grep editor ~/.muttrc
set editor="vim +/^$ -c 'set linebreak ft=mail'"


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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Grant]

> > This worked great for plain vi, but the problem persists with mutt.
> > Any suggestions for mutt?
>
> This is my mutt editor command.  Suit it to your desires, although I
> reccommend keeping the line breaks unless you know of a way to get mutt
> to format the outgoing mail with line breaks instead of having vim do it
> in line as it gets kind of tedious reformating the text when you have a
> difficult email to write. (:

Why would you want automatic line breaks in your email though?  Won't
every email client wrap text at an appropriate point for viewing?

> But even on this account I may be able to offer some knowledge.  When
> you need to reformat some text just select the text with <ctrl>-v or
> <shift>-v or 'v' and do 'gq'.
>
> $ grep editor ~/.muttrc
> set editor="vim +/^$ -c 'set linebreak ft=mail'"

I tried the following to stop mutt from adding line breaks but it doesn't work:

set editor="vim -c 'set nolinebreak'"

Can you help me fix that?

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:33:39AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> >$ grep editor ~/.muttrc
> >set editor="vim +/^$ -c 'set linebreak ft=mail'"
> 
> I tried the following to stop mutt from adding line breaks but it doesn't 
> work:
> 
> set editor="vim -c 'set nolinebreak'"

See my other email for the difference between linebreak and textwidth.
>From what I read of your preference, it sounds like you want to turn
off textwidth (set it to 0) and keep linebreak. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} vi line breaks

[Grant]

> > >$ grep editor ~/.muttrc
> > >set editor="vim +/^$ -c 'set linebreak ft=mail'"
> >
> > I tried the following to stop mutt from adding line breaks but it doesn't
> > work:
> >
> > set editor="vim -c 'set nolinebreak'"
>
> See my other email for the difference between linebreak and textwidth.
> From what I read of your preference, it sounds like you want to turn
> off textwidth (set it to 0) and keep linebreak.
>
> W

I now have the following in .vimrc:

:set textwidth=0
:set nolinebreak

and both vi and mutt are still creating line breaks.  Definitely
separate lines.  I'd really like to fix this.

- Grant
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