Is there an easy way to wrap LaTeX source? Using gwip
is great for individual paragraphs,
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit
esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
...but it fails more generally for other situations such as itemize environments:
\begin{itemize}
\item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing
elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et
dolore magna aliqua.
\item Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
\item Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate
velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
\end{itemize}
Or captions:
\begin{figure}
\caption[Lorem ipsum]{%
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore
magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud
exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea
commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in
reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu
fugiat nulla pariatur.%
}
\end{figure}
Issues:
- Using
gw
in visual mode is not very fast. (gwip
with theip
text-object is far easier and doesn't require manual selection.) - Using
textwidth=80
is great for auto-wrapping when writing a fresh paragraph, but not very helpful when editing text in the middle of a paragraph. Autowrapping within a middle of a paragraph can be accomplished with
set formatoptions+=a
, but that also ends up wrapping everything after the paragraph too:\begin{figure} \caption[Lorem ipsum]{% Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.% } \end{figure}