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I have turned on line wrapping with set wrap linebreak nolist in my .vimrc. However, this has the annoying behavior that lines not completely visible on the screen are hidden outright and replaced with @ signs:

How can I make these lines show up even though they are partially hidden?

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  • My web service log file has a line that's 98518 characters wide. When wrapped it fills more than 1 screen. How can I scroll it smoothly in vim? Using navigation keys like $ and w isn't quite working, is there another key that jumps say 1000 characters at a time? – roblogic Mar 2 '15 at 1:58
  • @ropata You could use something like nnoremap H 1000h and nnoremap L 1000l in your .vimrc to make H move left 1000 characters and similar for L, or you could wrap the line (gww) within Vim. But that's a different question, which you should ask as a separate question. – Doorknob Mar 2 '15 at 2:05
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You can use:

:set display+=lastline

From :help 'display':

lastline        When included, as much as possible of the last line
                in a window will be displayed.  When not included, a
                last line that doesn't fit is replaced with "@" lines.
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  • :help 'display' is more accurate. – nightire Feb 21 '15 at 1:13

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