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Vim: Word Wrap and Disable Automatic New Line

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Vim has many features and you can configure in the way you want to make the most of it. To wrap lines you need to change your vimrc file and also to disable the automatic new line behavior. When you are typing text Vim will automatically insert a new line after the 80 column. This is not convenient and it's very annoying if you use Vim to write besides programming as I do. Another nice feature is to have a left margin so text is not right next to the window border. Here's my vimrc file: " Word wrapping and disable new line automatically set wrap set linebreak set nolist  " list disables linebreak set textwidth=0 set wrapmargin=0 set formatoptions-=tc " Margin between text and window's border set foldcolumn=3 And here's how the text looks like with the new configuration: I really like Vim and I use it on Mac, Unix and Windows because it's a very light weight editor and you can make Vim a full writing tool like WriteRoom , or al ful