How to stop line breaking in vim

Question

I like that the long lines are displayed over more than one terminal line; I don’t like that vim inserts newlines into my actual text. Which part of .vimrc I should change?

Answer 1

You may find set lbr useful; with set wrap on this will wrap but only cutting the line on whitespace and not in the middle of a word.

e.g.

without lbr the li
ne can be split on
a word

and

with lbr on the
line will be
split on 
whitespace only