Wrap with indent

[Keith Edmunds]

Hi, this is for normal text editing rather than programming. I would like the first line of a paragraph to begin in column 1, and all auto-wrapped lines in that para after line 1 to have an indent of eight spaces:

This is a sample (and narrow) paragraph to
        illustrate the effect I am trying to
        achieve.

What settings should I be looking at to achieve this?

[Csaba Hoch]

Hi Keith,

You can use the 'indentexpr' option to set a custom indentation function, which will be called each time Vim wraps your line and calculates the new indentation. That function can check whether the newly wrapped line is the first line of the paragraph and return 0 or 8 depending on that. 'formatoptions' is also useful to determine when Vim will wrap your line.

Regards,

Csaba