Re: Word-wrapping text editor

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:25:48PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
| "V. T. Jones" <tjones@on-net.net> writes:
| 
| > I want a terminal based text editor that does word-wrap rather than just
| > wrapping in the middle of a word when it gets to the end of a line.  "Joe"
| > seems to do this.  Can emacs or vi be made to do this?
| 
| When Emacs wraps your text in the middle of a word, that's only for
| display purposes.  The text is still one line logically, and if you
| save it to a file, Emacs does not mark the line breaks in any way.

Ditto for vim.

See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details.  For
writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq".  (BTW this can
be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can be typed
as shown.)

HTH,
-D