Re: [vile] Annoying difference between wrapmargin and fillcol

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Chris G wrote:

> I'm have been using wrapwords and fillcol=70 instead of wrapmargin=10
> for the past few weeks and there is an annoying difference between the
> ways that the two approaches work.
>
> When you set wrapmargin=10 then the moment a word *begins* to encroach
> into the last ten columns of the window it is moved to the next line.
> However when you have wrapwords and fillcol=70 the moving of a word to
> the next line only occurs when you complete the word and type a space
> after it.  This means that if you happened to complete a line with a
> word that extends beyond column 70 and then stop insertion (end of
> message, move to somewhere else, whatever) the word isn't wrapped.

offhand, I suppose we could change the behavior of wrapmargin so it's
relative to fillcol (though that would be a big change).  Adding a
mode to control that behavior would be less impact...

By the way, the one detail about

        :set file-encoding

that I don't like is that there's no good abbreviation for file-encoding. 
These are used: "fe" (fence) "fc" (fillcol).  I'm considering adding "fk", 
which is less mnemonic than I like.  But an abbreviation is needed, given
the number of times I use it...

So:

        :set fk=utf-8
        :set-fk utf-8 (like :set-unix, to reset the buffer's encoding)

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