Re: [TCLUG:21349] vim help

["Gabe Turner (officer)" <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

You need to use textwidth=76 instead.  IIRC, wrapmargin should be the
size of the pad from the _right_ hand side.  So, if you want to wrap at 76
chars, set wrapmargin=4.  This is how the wm=X setting in vi works and my
guess is, it's the same for vim.

Gabe

On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:44:05PM -0500, Michael Josephson wrote:
> I've been using vim for my programming editor, and I must say, I really
> like it. So I'm also using it as my editor inside of mutt (set
> editor="vim -c 'set nonu' -c 'set wrapmargin=76'". Well, it is with the
> wrapmargin setting that I'm having difficulty. If I specify a wrapmargin,
> and if set wrap is on, then when I'm composing a message, it wraps at every
> word.
> 
> Something
> like
> this.
> 
> Any vim gurus out there with some ideas? 
> 
> thanks, mj
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