Re: Possible to auto add / to end of line when vim reaches textwidth and does a new line?

On Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:15:23 PM UTC-5, slack woody wrote:
> Hi
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> When I'm writing shell scripts I tend to have textwidth at around 72
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> characters. Is there a way that vim can auto add a \ at the end of the
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> line when it starts a new line?
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I think you can use the 'formatexpr' option for this. You'll need to write a function to do your formatting for you, including breaking the line and adding the '\'.

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