Re: Lost in formatoptions …

2017-10-01 21:43 GMT+03:00 Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com>:
> 2017-10-01 14:01 GMT+03:00 Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> trying to use vim for writing long prose and I am playing with
>> the optimal value for formatoptions. Currently I have
>>
>> set formatoptions=1tcroqlav
>>
>> but I think I have something wrong. Somehow 'a' is too active
>> to me and I am in the situation that I cannot split a paragraph
>> in the middle. When I enter one CR, the line splits, but when
>> I press ENTER again, nothing happens. I have to set paste, make
>> change, set nopaste and reformat, which is obviously wrong.
>>
>> What do I do wrong?
>
> You are trying to use `a` without `w`. Using trailing whitespaces is
> the only sane variant of using `a` &formatoptions flag, other variants
> are too restrictive and thus utterly broken.
>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Matěj
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