On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can access textwidth (and any other option) by prepending a &, e.g. :let > myvar = &textwidth. > > Why do you want to do this? 'textwidth' affects the placement of hard returns > in a file, it > should not change based on temporary window size, and changing it will not > affect the existing text.
Well, what I am wanting to do is have the whole text block centered--eg in the middle of the screen not center aligned-- in full-screen mode so there are equal(ish) margins on the left and right. You are right that I guess I do not want textwidth...I don't want this to result in a text file that is centered so, just as the display for typing... c -- Chris Lott <ch...@chrislott.org> -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php