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Vim: Soft Wrap
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Here's another Vim tip, which I'm surprised it took me so long to find out. To make Vim "soft wrap" text, like Microsoft Word does, use ":set wrap linebreak textwidth=0".
The only thing I wish is that it would treat soft wrapped text the way Emacs and Microsoft Word do. I.e., if you press up (i.e. k), it should go up a line on the screen, whether or not there was a \n involved. Oh well. I wonder if there's a setting for that too.
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That's awesome!
Finally! I can now use vim for prose as well as code. Cheers!
The only thing I wish is that it would treat soft wrapped text the way Emacs and Microsoft Word do. I.e., if you press up (i.e. k), it should go up a line on the screen, whether or not there was a \n involved. Oh well. I wonder if there's a setting for that too.
@Shannon -jj Behrens:
:map j gj
:map k gk
:map [Up] gk
:map [Down] gj
Just use '<' '>' instead of '[' and ']'