Re: sidescrolloff, but only for long lines?

Tony Mechelynck wrote:

> On 05/06/13 19:31, Stephen Talley wrote:
> > I use sidescrolloff to make sure I can see several columns ahead
> > of the cursor on long lines. However, even when a line is short
> > enough to fit entirely on the screen, vim still scrolls even
> > though there is no need to.
> >
> > Is there a way to turn off horizontal scrolling when a line
> > doesn't need it?
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > :set sidescrolloff=10 set nowrap
> >
> > On a 80-character-wide terminal, with this text:
> >
> > This is a very long long long long long long long long long long
> > long sentence.
> >
> > Putting the cursor on the last character of that line makes vim
> > scroll to the point where "This is a " is not visible. Since the
> > line can fit entirely within the bounds of the screen, I'd like it
> > to not scroll.
> >
> > Is there a way to limit horizontal scrolling to only scroll when
> > there is more of the line to be seen?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
>
> Try using 'sidescroll' instead, and setting 'sidescrolloff' to 0
> (which is the default).
>
> 'sidescrolloff' is by design the number of text columns to be shown
> on both sides of the cursor (including empty -or virtual- columns
> after the cursor position).

Thanks Tony, but I do like the automatic scrolling nature of
sidescrolloff. I just want it to scroll only as far as the end of the
line.

Steve

> Best regards,
> Tony.

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