whichwrap h and k are "not recommended"?

[Wincent Colaiuta]

I'm fairly new to Vim and I just found out about the "whichwrap"
setting.

In the help it says that adding "h" and "l" to the list is "not
recommended".

I'm extremely tempted to add those to "whichwrap" (along with <, >, [,
and ]), but before I do I wanted to ask the veterans why "h" and "l"
in particular are labelled as "not recommended". Basically, I wouldn't
want to develop a bad habit here that will later haunt me once I
become more experienced with Vim.

Cheers,
Wincent

[Ben Fritz]

A lot of people like the fact that h and l stop at line boundaries. It
lets them press it repeatedly or with a count without worrying about
wrapping to the next line. Additionally, there is a possibility that
plugins and mappings assume this behavior and will break if you have
them included in whichwrap.

But it's really all a matter of preference. Personally, I like having
them wrap. I've never found a situation where I wish I hadn't set them
up to do so.

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On Wednesday 18 February 2009 8:39 pm, Ben Fritz wrote:
>
> On Feb 18, 4:14 pm, Wincent Colaiuta <w...@wincent.com> wrote:
> > I'm fairly new to Vim and I just found out about the "whichwrap"
> > setting.
> >
> > In the help it says that adding "h" and "l" to the list is "not
> > recommended".

[...]

> wrapping to the next line. Additionally, there is a possibility that
> plugins and mappings assume this behavior and will break if you have
> them included in whichwrap.

i've had 'h' and 'l' in my whichwrap for decades and don't remember
a single time it broke a script, but YMMV

</me knocks on wood>

sc