Re: Line formatting

On 2014-02-13, mvxxc wrote:
> Hello Vim users,
>
> I have noticed that the formatting command "gq" is affected by the options
> "linebreak" and "columns": If "linebreak" is set, lines are broken at different
> positions if the value of "columns" varies, i.e. a different terminal size
> can lead to a different result. Perhaps this should be mentioned in the help
> pages or formatting should be independent of the number of screen columns?
>
> To test it, set options with ":se fex& fp& tw& lbr". Then use ":se co=80" and
> ":se co=74" to format the following test line with "gqq". In the first case,
> the line is not changed; in the second case, it is broken before the last word.
>
> xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx

This is the intentional, documented behavior and is not a bug.

":help gq" says, in part,

If the 'textwidth' option is 0, the formatted line
length is the screen width (with a maximum width of
79).

In my experiments, this behavior was not affected by 'linebreak'.

Regards,
Gary

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