> I often come across text files that contain long paragraphs, and vim's > numbering(:se nu) shows only one line for a paragraph until unless a > newline is encountered. > It is a pain to read that way. > Is there a way to render a paragraph in the form of numbered lines > whereby each line contains a fixed number of characters?
Yes, vim provides all manner of ways to ease this particular problem: 1) Show single lines as visually wrapped, but leave the original content: :set wrap 1b) Do #1, but break on word-boundaries: :set wrap linebreak 2) Wrap the lines by inserting line-breaks at word-boundaries for a given text-width (what I understand you describe) :set textwidth=75 gggqG 3) Insert a hard new-line at a particular character offset, regardless of whether it lands in the middle of a word: :%s/\%75c/\r (might have to run this multiple times) For more info, check out :help 'wrap' :he 'linebreak' :he 'textwidth' :he gq :he \%c :he \%v -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
