Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files

[Brian Frederick Kimball <bfk@footbag.org>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +0000, q wrote:
> > (my apologies...it's on my list of projects.  i use vi.  the posts i
> > see for this issue seem to be for vim.  (anyone know how to line wrap
> > in _vi_?))
> 
> Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in elvis, ":set
> textwidth=NN" causes it to wrap at NN columns.

If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want "set wraplen=NN" in
your $HOME/.exrc.  But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even
have multi-level undo.  Better to just install vim & vim-rt and put "set
textwidth=NN" in your $HOME/.vimrc.

	brian