Thursday, November 3, 2011

Re: question about interaction b/w textwidth and conceal

Hi Herbert, again ;)

On Do, 03 Nov 2011, hsitz wrote:

> I'm using conceal to hide portions of web links in my documents. I
> use textwidth of 80 to automatically add line breaks.
>
> The problem I have is that the "concealed" parts of weblinks counts as
> part of the 80 characters used by textwidth. So if I have a long link
> that is largely concealed, showing just a few characters on the
> display, the linebreak can be added at a point that is far less than
> column 80.
>
> I don't want the concealed text counted as part of the textwidth
> count. Is there some setting to avoid that behavior, i.e., to have
> only visible characters be used for textwidth?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Herb Sitz
>
> Example below:
> ------------------------------------------------
> This is actual text of a line:
>
> [[http:///www.this_is_a_long_url_description_that_is_concealed.com]
> [LINK DESCRIPTION]]
>
> This is text that is displayed when 'conceal' is on:
>
> LINK DESCRIPTION
>
> I would like to have text to right of link description on the line,
> but when using textwidth it will immediately break into a new line,
> because counting hidden characters line length goes over textwidth.
> -----------------------------------------------

This has been discussed several times, e.g. here (which contains links
to further references)
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/d08f576a61aff805

(in short, it is not possible to change this)

regards,
Christian

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