On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:25:48PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: | "V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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