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So suppose there's some text in vim terminal that is longer than the terminal width and it causes a wrap. Now suppose I go into normal mode in that terminal.

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In normal mode, we have an addition of 4 new rows due to line numbers and spaces

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This causes an awkward break in the line we saw before, which now takes 3 lines when it can still fit in 2 lines

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Is there a solution to this? through a vim setting or a terminal setting?

This happens to me in different shells (bash/tcsh) different terminals emulators (windows terminal/mate terminal) in vim 8.1

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    Why do you enable numbering for terminal window?
    – Christian Brabandt
    Mar 30, 2022 at 7:56
  • 1. I don't know how to configure settings specifically for terminal. my vimrc enables numbers unconditionally - if you know how to do that I'll appreciate it (maybe I will set nowrap for terminal). 2. it's easier to navigate when I have number and relative number set.
    – Nimrod Weinberg
    Mar 30, 2022 at 10:09
  • Try :au TerminalWinOpen * :set nonu
    – Christian Brabandt
    Mar 30, 2022 at 16:39

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You can set the following autocommand to disable numbering in terminal windows:

augroup MyTerminal
au!
au TerminalWinOpen * :set nonumber norelativenumber
augroup END

Note: TerminalWinOpen does not exist in Neovim.

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  • I used it to set nowrap which solves it as well, and keeps the numbers which I like. The wrap is still there due to terminal wrap, but the awkward break is gone.
    – Nimrod Weinberg
    Apr 1, 2022 at 19:55

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