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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.new-york.net!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Subject: vim/nvi Ignore wrapmargin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Senate Industries Message-ID: <EBIv7o.Esq@nonexistent.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 865882498 19166 nathan [204.141.125.38] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: senate.org Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:53:35 GMT Lines: 15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42669 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? -- ##################### For PGP key, telnet senate.org 5000 # Nathan Dorfman # or finger nathan@senate.org # Senate Industries # /'-- www.senate.org | ftp.senate.org -- `\ ##################### \________________________________________/