[NCLUG] vi word-wrap, please help !

[Jim Wildman]

I've never seen vi break words. 
:se wm=8 
will do on word margins.

fmt does a nice job of cleaning up the lines.
:1,$!fmt

Not sure how to keep it all on one line.


On Saturday 27 October 2001 06:07 pm, you wrote:
>
> My question is: Can I tweak vi into keeping long lines intact, displaying
> them wrapped, but wrap them on word boundaries instead of every
> 'screenwidth' characters ?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Gabriel
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