>> I have a line from about 40.000 characters. I want to break
>> this up into lines which are 80 charactes long.
>>
>> In a previous thread, a few months ago this was possible with
>> one g-command. I did use it then also, but can't recall it
>> anymore.
>
> I presume you must be misremembering "g". I've done it with
> ":s" before:
>
> :%s/.\{80\}/&\r/g
>
> It's a little trickier if you want it to fall exactly on word-
> boundaries, rather than hacking in the middle of words.
> However, if this is the case, drop a line back and I'll see
> what I can do.
:set tw=80 followed by gqq
Whether line break up happens at word boundaries or not depends on
some parameter -- I have forgotten which.
--Suresh
