Re: width of help text on a small device

2017-04-19 13:28 GMT+03:00 Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org>:
> On Di, 18 Apr 2017, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
>
>> on my 7" tablet (Android) I installed a chrooted Linux on which
>> in turn I installed vim (*not* gvim. *not* neovim. "vim" != "gvim" != "neovim".
>> The console version. The only one called simply "vim").
>>
>> Unfortunately the tablet is not that wide.
>>
>> With readable sized characters the width is not wide enough to display
>> the help pages in full width. Each line is either wrapped (looks
>> awfull and destroys any table and such) or you have to scroll back
>> and forth each line.
>>
>> Is there a way to initially -- for example when doing "helptags" --
>> re-arrange the help pages to smaller sized widths?
>> How?
>
> What is your textwidth on the device? I believe the help pages are
> written for a textwidth of 78 characters. Perhaps it is enough to set
> 'nowrap' to prevent wrapping. See also the answer from Zyx.

&nowrap is "scroll back and forth" option mentioned by the OP.

I would also mention &wrapindent with &showbreak, but this is only
slightly better and still going to destroy tables as well, unless OP
adjusts &showbreak to match the table each time viewing different
table. Maybe that could be automated though.

>
> Best,
> Christian
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