VIM: how to control wrap width?? Please help - Editors

daButcher wrote:

> i have a file that is 1000 characters long with no carriage returns. I
> want it to wrap evey 10 characters. Is there any way to make vim wrap at
> 10 characters without setting my window to be 10 characters wide?

If you're talking about inserting newlines into the text, you can use
this:

s/.\{10}/&^M/g

(Where ^M means to type CTRL-V and then Enter.) This has been tested only
mildly; as always with Vim, this is but one of the myriad ways to do it.

HTH,
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Thanks for the help. This will work, but i was wondering if there was a way
to do it without modifying the file. I've searched all day and can't find
anything.
Also \r working instead of the ^M.

Thanks again.

Jman

On 2007-03-01, daButcher <j@j.com> wrote:
> i have a file that is 1000 characters long with no carriage returns.
> I want it to wrap evey 10 characters. Is there any way to make vim
> wrap at 10 characters without setting my window to be 10 characters
> wide?
>
> Right now my window is 80 columns wide, so if i :set wrap it wraps
> at every 80 chars.
>
> This is just an example, my real data file is like an 80,000
> charcter string with no carriage return, and i want it to wrap at
> every 762 chars so i can read it.

You could hard-wrap it with :set tw=762 followed by gggqG, read it,
and then undo.

Thanks Ben, Thats closer to what i'm looking for, but it only wraps the
text if there is a space in the line.

I guess there's no way to wrap text (without inserting a new line) at like
column 100 or 70 if your window is exactly 80 columns wide.

John

"Ben C" <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote in message
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> On 2007-03-01, daButcher <j@j.com> wrote:
>> i have a file that is 1000 characters long with no carriage returns.
>> I want it to wrap evey 10 characters. Is there any way to make vim
>> wrap at 10 characters without setting my window to be 10 characters
>> wide?
>>
>> Right now my window is 80 columns wide, so if i :set wrap it wraps
>> at every 80 chars.
>>
>> This is just an example, my real data file is like an 80,000
>> charcter string with no carriage return, and i want it to wrap at
>> every 762 chars so i can read it.
>
> You could hard-wrap it with :set tw=762 followed by gggqG, read it,
> and then undo.