Re: Newlines being created automatically

A ha, for some reason the verbose thing didn't kick in earlier. Just ran it again and it said:

  textwidth=78

        Last set from ~/.vimrc

The plot thickens! Looking in my .vimrc file, it says this:

" In text files, always limit the width of text to 78 characters

  autocmd BufRead *.txt set tw=78

I normally edit code in vim, so that's probably why I haven't seen the 78 character tw kick in (was editing a text file this time).

Guess my cat has been exonerated!

Thanks much,

-Sid

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Siddhartha Kasivajhula <skasivaj@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks guys, the output from :verbose set tw? wm? was

textwidth=78

wrapmargin=0

And fo is set to

formatoptions=tcql

help fo-table indicates that the 'l' is supposed to prevent long lines from being cut off past textwidth. But in any case,

setting tw=0 did the trick!

-Sid

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:

On 2011-06-05, Siddhartha Kasivajhula wrote:
> Noble Vim sages,
> Lately, vim has started creating a newline as soon as I hit 72 columns in a
> line. I don't recall this happening before so it's quite possibly a result of
> my cat's fondness for sitting on my keyboard. Any idea how I can prevent this
> from happening?

This column is set by the 'textwidth' ('tw') and 'wrapmargin' ('wm')
options.  Execute

   :verbose set tw? wm?

[Tony, I didn't drop the "set" this time!] to see their current
values and where they were last set.

Depending on the type of text you are entering, this behavior can
also be influenced by the 'formatoptions' ('fo') option,
particularly the 't' and 'c' flags.  As with 'tw' and 'wm',

   :verbose set fo?

will show you the current value and where it was last set.  The
default value for Vim is "tcq".  For more details, see

   :help 'tw'
   :help 'wm'
   :help 'fo'
   :help fo-table

and for an overview, see

   :help ins-textwidth
   :help 25.1

Regards,
Gary

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