Re: cursorline and long lines

Bram,

On Mi, 28 Mär 2012, Abu Yoav wrote:

[...]
> I am editing a text file (latex). I prefer that each paragraph be a
> long line, and that vim wrap the text. That's the usual behaviour, and
> that works fine. An option that seems very helpful is cursorline, so I
> set it (":set cul"). However, this does not do what I want. Namely,
> instead of highlighting the *visual* line I am on, it highlights the
> whole paragraph. Is there any way to highlight only the current visual
> line I am on? Again, a workaround would be to instruct vim to have
> lines of at most 80 characters (say), but I don't want that.

The help for 'cursorline' says:

,----
| Highlight the screen line of the cursor with CursorLine
`----

While 'cul' has always been highlighting complete lines. Do you think,
this would warrant a new option, that changes 'cul' to only highlight
screen lines or change the option 'cul' to a string option, that can be
set to 'screen' or 'line'?

This might be helpful for long lines (e.g. when editing csv files and
wrap is set).

If not, the documentation should be updated.

regards,
Christian
--
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nach ihr.
-- Jean Paul (eig. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)

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