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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!bulb.garlic.com!news.scruz.net!news.he.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!trefoil.bogs.org!greg From: greg@trefoil.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: vim/nvi Ignore wrapmargin Date: 10 Jun 1997 05:01:11 GMT Organization: BOGS Research Group Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5nin2n$nf5$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <EBIv7o.Esq@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: bogslab.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42665 Nathan Dorfman (nathan@senate.org) wrote: : Hi! I purchased and installed 2.2.1-RELEASE, the CD set, from Walnut : Creek. However, I have a problem with both nvi and vim. I :set : wrapmargin=0 (or wm=0), which according to O'Reilly's vi book, should : cause the editor to not wrap. It STILL wraps. I even set it to 20, which : should make it wrap 20 columns before the right "end of screen" and it : ignores that too ... do I need to find the source and compile, or what? : I have it in my .exrc (set wm=0) and tried doing it manually inside : the editor, with and without the .exrc file existing ... anyone have : a clue as to what is up here? I think you are confusing margin-wrapping (which breaks lines by inserting a newline into the file when the wrapmargin limit is exceeded) with left-right shift, which shifts the entire display to the left or right when the cursor would move past the edge, but which makes no change in the file. Try ":se lr" to see the latter effect. -Greg