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Question by andalu
Submitted on 2/3/2004
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How can I use word wrap in VI. If the screen length is 135 chars and one line in my text file is about 500 chars. I would like to see each line in one line with out auto word wrap - some thing like windows-notedpad-wordwrap feature. The autonewline in VI should not happen. How can we acheive this.

Answer by perpetual
Submitted on 9/3/2004
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There is a command :linebreak on At least in vim. This should set word wrapping on. vim has to be compiled with that feature though. It does not put real EOL characters in your text though.

Answer by Mr Funk
Submitted on 5/10/2007
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:set nowrap

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