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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Guenter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi's (auto-fill-mode)
Message-ID: <62420025@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 22:01:43 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.225511.3375@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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In comp.editors, R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh) writes:

> This might be a stupid one. How can you get Vi to wrap your sentences around and
> insert CR's at the end of each line. I know it is possible to do this literally
> but how do you get it to keep the words intact and not cut a sentence in a
> middle of a word. For EMACS users, an equivalent of the (auto-text-fill).
> Thanx

Yeah, looks like you could indeed use that :-)

In vi, try:

:set wm=4

to set the "wrapmargin".  In my vi (HP-UX), whenever wm is set to
anything greater than zero, lines get automatically wrapped at word
boundaries, at least "wm" characters from the right margin.  My normal
setting is 8, which is what I wrote this text under.  I.e. my .exrc
contains

set wrapmargin=8

Actually, my .exrc also contains this:

" S cycles wm=0/8/4, and tells about it
map S *9
map *4 :set wm=4^V|map S *9^M:"wm=4^M
map *8 :set wm=8^V|map S *4^M:"wm=8^M
map *9 :set wm=0^V|map S *8^M:"wm=0^M

which allows me to cycle through wm settings by pressing S.  (Those ^caret-
thingies are control-V and control-M.)

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com