Smart Wrap in Vim

Question

I have been wondering if Vim has the capability to smart wrap lines of code, so that it keeps the same indentation as the line that it is indenting. I have noticed it on som

Answer 1

The only way I know of that you could do this would be to use a return character (as mentioned by Cfreak) and combine the textwidth option with the various indentation options. If your indent is configured correctly (as it is by default with the html syntax I believe, but otherwise see the autoindent and smartindent options), you can:

:set formatoptions = tcqw
:set textwidth = 50
gggqG

If you have any customisation of the formatoptions setting, it may be better to simply do:

:set fo += w
:set tw = 50
gggqG

What this does:

:set fo+=w  " Add the 'w' flag to the formatoptions so 
            " that reformatting is only done when lines
            " end in spaces or are too long (so your 

            " isn't moved onto the same line as your 

Note that this is not the same as a soft wrap: it will wrap the lines in the source file as well as on the screen (unless you don't save it of course!). There are other settings that can be added to formatoptions that will auto-format as you type: details in :help fo-table.

For more information, see:

:help 'formatoptions'
:help fo-table
:help 'textwidth'
:help gq
:help gg
:help G
:help 'autoindent'
:help 'smartindent'