Re: width of help text on a small device

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.

Best,
Christian
--
Schön ist eigentliches alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet.
-- Christian Morgenstern

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