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What is the meaning of lbr in Vim?
I write set lbr in my vimrc file but I don't know the meaning of that. What does this option do?
I know it's about line-breaking but I need more explanation.
This is from the Vim document and I can ...
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Showing showbreak character at the end of the line that is wrapping
Is there a way to show showbreak character at the end of the line that is wrapping, not at the beginning of the next one?
1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur \
adipiscing elit, sed do ...
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Extending the true line width to enable screen readers to see what blind users cannot
Vim is outstanding. It holds a lot of potential for blind users.
I still have one out-of-the-box problem when using vim with screen readers (tested with both NVDA and System Access). But that surely ...
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How to jump to a next or previous specific character ignoring linebreaks and not destroying highlight or overwriting my registry?
I have not found much use for ()[]{}, and so I want to map them so it does a find command, jumping to the previous instance of that particular character.
Thus, ) will jump forward to the next ), ...
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How do I configure vim to show a character when a line is too long to be displayed?
I want to be notified when a line is too long to fit in the window.
Right now I have this in ~/.vimrc:
set wrap
let &showbreak = ' +++ '
I'd like to change that to:
set nowrap
let &...
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Getting Error while opening files through vim
I am trying to use unicode characters in vim. Since msdos prompt didnt support unicode, I downloaded cygwin.
I added some commands in .vimrc through cygwin.
Basic commands like setting encoding, ...
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Still force new line at end, but show it too?
Some people prefer not to end a file with a new line.
I'm not one of them. In fact, I want to see that it's there!
How can I keep this 'force new line at end' behaviour, but show it in the editor? I ...
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Set line breaks, word wraps and word searching for Thai and other non-latin languages
I can set the text width and can manually line break imported paragraphs with the following as an example.
set textwidth=72
gqq
I can also navigate English text files with the standard 'w' 'b' 'e' '*...
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How to make vim automatically add a newline to the end of a file?
Vim normally writes <EOL> for the last line only when there was one in the original file.
How to make vim to write a new line at the end of a file all the time (when the file is not binary and ...
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