Visible wrap column with gVim?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

Hi,

Is there a way to get gVim to show where wrapmargin is visually? I'm
thinking a line of |s down the screen or something... I'm editing a
number of files which need to be kept below 80 columns where possible,
but forcing a wrap isn't possible because occasionally I go over...

Cheers,
--
Ciaran McCreesh
mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk

[Daniel Albuschat]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> Is there a way to get gVim to show where wrapmargin is visually? I'm
> thinking a line of |s down the screen or something... I'm editing a
> number of files which need to be kept below 80 columns where possible,
> but forcing a wrap isn't possible because occasionally I go over...

This is not possible, afaik.
But try to just resize your terminal to that width.

cu, Daniel

--
eat(this); // delicious suicide

[Juergen Graefe]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:14:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> Is there a way to get gVim to show where wrapmargin is visually? I'm
> thinking a line of |s down the screen or something... I'm editing a
> number of files which need to be kept below 80 columns where possible,
> but forcing a wrap isn't possible because occasionally I go over...

I somewhere found a few lines for your .vimrc:

----- cut here -----
hi LineLenWarn ctermfg=yellow cterm=none
hi LineLenErr ctermfg=red cterm=none
syn match LineLenWarn /\%>80v./
syn match LineLenErr /\%>90v./
----- cut here -----

This will define two new highlighting types. The first colors all
characters in the columns 80-89 and the second all characters right of
them. You have to turn con syntax highlighting.

I had some problems with that (which i don't know anymore), but maybe it
will work for you.

greetings,
Juergen

[Peter Karp]

Ciaran McCreesh <dev...@firedrop.org_uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to get gVim to show where wrapmargin is visually?

" aftereight(y) highlights text in yellow which is longer
" then 70 chars and in red when the text is longer than 80 chars
" by Noel Henson <no...@noels-lab.com>
" Message-ID: <KQRx9.106682$wG.4...@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>
:syn match After70 /\%>70v./
:syn match After80 /\%>79v./
: hi After70 guibg=yellow
: hi After80 guibg=red

--
Peter

[Peppe]

Juergen Graefe wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:14:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> > Is there a way to get gVim to show where wrapmargin is visually? I'm
> > thinking a line of |s down the screen or something... I'm editing a
> > number of files which need to be kept below 80 columns where possible,
> > but forcing a wrap isn't possible because occasionally I go over...

> I somewhere found a few lines for your .vimrc:

> ----- cut here -----
> hi LineLenWarn ctermfg=yellow cterm=none
> hi LineLenErr ctermfg=red cterm=none
> syn match LineLenWarn /\%>80v./
> syn match LineLenErr /\%>90v./
> ----- cut here -----

If you can live with the consequences of syntax highlighting getting
confused, I guess that is fine.

I'd recommend :match for this. The following would highlight characters
in column 81 through 90:

:match Todo /\%>80v\%<91v./

As you cannot use multiple :match commands, everything after the
highlighted characters will not be highlighted, though. Except for white
space, it should be clear enough that they are there, though.

If using :match, I'd recommend setting the 'list' option and tweak
'listchars' to mark the end of line somehow.

Peppe
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